Biography

Wrote his novel 'Primary Colors' anonymously. He was later identified as the author when his handwriting was found on an early manuscript of the novel.

Is a reporter at the New York Times.

Now a veteran political writer and columnist, he authored "Primary Colors," using the pen-name "Anonymous." It was made into a film starring John Travolta.

Columnist, "Time" magazine.

Has written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life and Rolling Stone.

[observation, 2015] That was the dream - that somehow Jews and Arabs could make it work, could eventually, together, create vibrant societies that would transcend bigotry and exist side by side. The dream was that the unifying force of common humanity and ethnicity would, for once, trump religious exceptionalism. It was always a long shot. It seems impossible now. For the sake of his own future, Benjamin Netanyahu has made dreadful Jewish history: he is the man who made anti-Arab bigotry an overt factor in Israeli political life. This is beyond tragic. It is shameful and embarrassing.

[on the 2016 Presidential primaries] Bad taste and flagrant bigotry had been rewarded. And lessons had been learned by a generation of future candidates: if you want to get ahead, be outrageous, slag the weak and the different. You'll get a lot of airtime.

[on the head of CNN hiring Trump-supporter Corey Lewandowski as a 'political analyst] Jeff Zucker is just another huckster, someone trying to make some money in disheveled times. But here is a question for him: Do you think giving a podium to Lewandowski will improve our discourse, make the views of Trumpists more comprehensible - or just provide another loaf of bread, another circus to a populace stuffed on starch and drivel?

I look at Bernie Sanders and see an Old Testament prophet kvetching about greed and corruption. There is a place for that in American politics, but not in the White House.

[Hillary Clinton was] an extremely peripheral figure in the failure to secure the Benghazi station: matters of consular security never reached her level of seniority - and more to the point, the significant operation in Benghazi was run by the CIA, which should have been responsible for security. David Petraeus was director of Central Intelligence at that point, and no one blames him for the ambush, nor should they