It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.

Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.

The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.