“In term one, Trump had already had a pretty high appetite for risk. It is stratospheric in term two. In Regime Change, Jonathan and I wanted to...
“There’s a feeling of distance to tell yourself, ‘I am not on the progressive left, but I am not calling people authoritarian extremists. I’m not...
“When I say I see this moment as an event horizon, what I mean is that I don’t know what’s on the other side of it. It might be better. Maybe this...
“In doing politics reporting on The Run-Up, we did it in real time because it mattered in real time. I wasn’t just asking questions because I wanted...
“The Oscars are a diagnosis of the health of the movies. And the five to 10 films nominated for best picture operate as a class that doubles as an X...
“2016 was a story of political media completely missing the country. That has been my driver of the reason to do bottom-up reporting. By the time I...
“To invite someone into your home feels very intimate. It’s like a fast track to intimacy, in a way that nothing else really is. People’s memories...
“I’m definitely willing to break and mold the new rules for what they are. I have a lot of identities that are often lost in political journalism...
“For many years, as the kind of journalism I was doing became more and more directly personal—I was trying to find my way to a language that I could...