Maybe Santa Claus Is Real. Here's The

Ronald Reagan Came To Office And Had Already Been An Experienced Politician As Governor Of California, Whose Ideology And Ideas, No Matter How Simplistic Or No Matter How Much You May Disagree With Them, Were Fairly Well-developed And Fairly Consistent. Donald Trump Is A Real-estate Branding Operator And A Reality-show Television Star Whose Entrance Into Big-time Politics, As A Victor, As Someone Who Will Now Wield Tremendous Power, Was As Shocking To Him As It Was To Everybody Else.

I'm A Journalist - I'm Not Robert Caro. I Have A Day Job, And A Pretty Consuming One - A Joyfully Consuming One.

Russian Is Such A Tough And Complex Language That I Am Happy Enough To Understand Everything And Read Most Things Pretty Well, But, Without Constant Practice, My Speech Is Not What I Wish It Was, And I Would Sooner Write In Crayon Than Write A Letter In Russian.

Donald Trump Appoints People Of Low Quality, To Say The Least.

From A Personal Point Of View, I'd Like To Interview My Great-grandparents Because I Barely Knew Them, And I Know Next To Nothing About My Family Beyond 100 Years.