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David Remnick

David Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He also has served on the New York Public Library board of trustees. In 2010 he published his sixth book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.

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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a repo ...

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and rea ...

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has ...

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corr ...

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on ser ...

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non ...

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, ...

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully co ...

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying ...