Tina Brown
When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.
It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.
To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.
With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.
Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.
One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.Collection: Baby
Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.Collection: Powerful
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.Collection: Answers
Hide from change and it will hide from youCollection: Change
Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.Collection: Hands
What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.Collection: Girl
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptionsCollection: Fun
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the momentCollection: Moving
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting credCollection: Winning
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishmentsCollection: Mistake
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reportingCollection: Running
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustlingCollection: Anchors
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break inCollection: Writing
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for printCollection: Writing
I'm trying to be entertaining without being meanCollection: Mean
Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.Collection: Art
In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming trainCollection: Track