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The Only Reason The Word "brand" Gets A Little Tiresome Is That Something That Is Complex And Wonderful And Deep Begins To Sound Like A Can Of Tomato Soup. I Recoil At That, But I'm Used To It. I Know What It Means: It Means That The New Yorker Is Not Merely The Magazine That Comes Out In Print Once A Week. It's The Web Site, It's The Festival, It's Our Mobile Application - All These Things - And What They Stand For And What They Mean.

Disaster Can Take A Nation By Surprise, Slowly, And Then All At Once.

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 Suspicions About The Vote In Ohio. And, By The Way, Richard Nixon Had Suspicions In 1960 About The Vote In Chicago When He Lost To Jfk.

Every Good Journalist Is Aware That His Trade May One Day Go The Way Of Phrenology-and, What's More, The Population Will Hardly Protest The Extinction.

What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?