I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“One cannot exclude the possibility of a fascist period in Russia,” Staravoitova said on the radio station Echo of Moscow. “We can see too… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
