The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.
Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.
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 perceptions.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
The Duke of York has never remarried.
What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.
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 in.
We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.
More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
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.
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.
I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
We live in a culture of destructive transparency.
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
