I'm A Journalist - I'm Not Robert

Vladimir Putin Wants Practical Things, Like The End Of Economic Sanctions, But He Also Wants Far Greater Sway In Europe And In The Overall Ideological Trends Of The World.

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.

The Question For So Many Is The Quality Of Work, The Future Of Work Under Globalism And De-industrialization. A Typical Example Is A Person Who Had A Good Factory Job Making 80,000 Dollars, With Health Insurance, Who Was Able To Send His Kids Possibly To College And Then He Or She Suddenly Loses That Job Because The Factory Closed Down. And Now That Same Person Is Bagging Groceries At Walmart And Making $35,000.

Journalism, Some Huge Percentage Of It, Should Be Devoted To Putting Pressure On Power, On Nonsense, On Chicanery Of All Kinds And If That's Going To Invite A Lawsuit, Well, Bring It On.

I Know From My Conversations With People In The Administration That Every World Leader That Obama Met In Berlin, In Peru, In Athens Was Extremely Alarmed By Trump's Election. That Very Much Includes Angela Merkel.