The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

David Remnick

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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.

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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Remnick

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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

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Instagram - it's fun, but Facebook, no, just here and there. I use Instagram as a kick, like when somebody tells me to check out so-and-so's Instagram account to check out their French toast or a trip to Tanzania. But I don't have an account.

David Remnick

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I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

David Remnick

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We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

David Remnick

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Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

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There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

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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, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

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I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

David Remnick

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You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

David Remnick

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You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

David Remnick

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I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

David Remnick

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Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

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The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

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You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

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100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

David Remnick

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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

David Remnick

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You are losing because of Jewish bankers.

David Remnick

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