The Only Reason To Be In Business

I Have To Always Remember, Writing Is Really Hard.

There Are Days When You Might Enjoy Being An Editor A Little Less, Due To One Crisis Or Another. It Is Absolutely Vital, To Me, In A Period Of Technological Evolution And Sometimes Financial Stress That I And My Colleagues Not Only Put Out A Fantastic Magazine And Web Site And All The Rest, But Also That We Are Smart Enough About What We Are Doing.

Disaster Can Take A Nation By Surprise, Slowly, And Then All At Once.

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

Clearly Independent Journalists - Domestic Journalists - Run A High Risk If They Dare To Take On Serious Investigative Work.