I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global...

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

New Yorkers have borne witness to a slew of horrific crimes that strike at the heart of their collective sense of security.

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of...

Few believe Democrats will control both houses of Congress in 2021, and even if they manage to, Republicans will still be around to play spoiler on plenty of big agenda items.

My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic,...

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

President Obama's team clearly dominated the get-out-the-vote campaign in 2012, which may very well have won him the key state of Florida.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

I had - in my early 20s and late teens, I had adopted this idea that I was the future face. And that was in large part due to this Time Magazine cover from 1993 that proclaimed the future face of...

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in...

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and...

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619....

For a journalist working in Gaza or the Occupied Territories, a PRESS badge offers limited protection at best. For a Palestinian journalist, it clearly offers none at all.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a...

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I've written on football at the Guardian, American football, obviously. I've also written on weather at The Guardian.