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

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.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

"The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them."

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.