Nature Is Cold, Wet, Hard And Unforgiving.

I Am An Adult; Deliberately Naïve, Dewy-eyed Optimism Is Not The Proper Posture For A Responsible Adult, Is It?

I Use Social Media Every Day. I Don't Have A Twitter Account, But Not Because I'm A Dinosaur About It. I Have Enough Of A Platform Here. People In My Position Who Do It Tend To Use It In A Promotional Way Or In A Hamstrung Way. I Look At Twitter All The Time As A News Tool Or For Cultural Conversation. I've Used It In My Reporting. It's Very Useful.

I Left Gorbachev's Office Thinking That Everything About Him Was Outsized: His Achievements, His Mistakes, And, Now, His Vanity And Bitterness.

The Internet Is Very Democratizing In Some Ways, But It Also Has Other Effects.

Not All Political Prisoners Are Innocents.