Tina Brown

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions.

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.