The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.
We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.
Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.
Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.
Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.
I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.
The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.
I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.
It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.
People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.
You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.
I'm famously humble.
Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.
