This is not the beginning of the end. But it is the end of the beginning. This paraphrase of a statement by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Second World War seems to fit today’s American political scene. The 2016 presidential campaign will soon arrive at the moment when speculation gives way to voting. […]

We talked recently to a senior Republican who has devoted his career to conservative candidates and principles. Who would he vote for, given a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Clinton, he answered immediately. Trump would “blow up” everything this man had spent his life building. A few days earlier, we’d interviewed a seasoned […]

Nobody knows why we dream. Millions of years of evolution, eye-popping advancements in neuroscience and general scientific research, and yet there’s not one person on this planet who can explain to me why I dreamt last week about being locked in a jail cell with Steve Urkel from “Family Matters.” This actually happened. The only […]

In 2011, at an American Society of Magazine Editors awards ceremony, Jann Wenner waxed nostalgic about the birth of New Journalism in the 1960s. “From the beginning of Rolling Stone, we aspired to be a part of that genre – long reportorial sagas, as first-person and writerly as necessary, intense in their sense of place […]