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...

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,...

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 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...

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.

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.

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

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be...

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about...

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...