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Twitter is crack for media addicts.
Politics should seize the imagination.
The Olympics are never just about sports.
We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.
Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.
In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.
Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.
We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.
On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.
Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.
Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.
Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.
Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.
When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.
Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.
What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.
You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.
This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.
Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.
There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.
I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.