I Would Love To Have A Stable,

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

Democratic Institutions, Even In The Oldest Operating Democracy In The World, Are Anything But Perfect.

What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?

The Democratic Vote Consists Of Minorities And Educated Whites.

The Only Reason The Word "brand" Gets A Little Tiresome Is That Something That Is Complex And Wonderful And Deep Begins To Sound Like A Can Of Tomato Soup. I Recoil At That, But I'm Used To It. I Know What It Means: It Means That The New Yorker Is Not Merely The Magazine That Comes Out In Print Once A Week. It's The Web Site, It's The Festival, It's Our Mobile Application - All These Things - And What They Stand For And What They Mean.