Quotes from Alex Wagner

In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters and suggest the possibility - but not probability - of defeat.

Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced in the drawing of congressional districts, each states number of Electoral College votes and the application of civil rights laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually a functioning place.

As a former music magazine editor, I still pine for the days when I used to know about all the best jams and new bands.

To be counted in the census is to be both seen and supported.

The higher you climb in the media, the issue is being good to other women. I've been fortunate to have a few really talented, strong female bosses who've encouraged me along the way. I've also been around women who haven't been particularly supportive.

Humor borne out of cruelty happens to be the easiest and therefore lowest form of comedy: It is cheap stuff and it does not elevate the candidate, nor make him a more fundamentally sympathetic character.

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, 'Asian' is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than 'Hispanic' belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.

My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.

I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn't the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.

When I had my first son, in 2017, we decided to give him a Burmese middle name. I picked Mindon, after the penultimate king of Burma. It sounded strong and regal, and it wasnt too difficult for a Western speaker.

You have to have at least some kind of baseline coverage under the studio lights. It's not like normal makeup; it's like walking around with a wet coat of paint on your face.

I had - in my early 20s and late teens, I had adopted this idea that I was the future face. And that was in large part due to this Time Magazine cover from 1993 that proclaimed the future face of America.

When we think of community, we think of some sort of nebulous, faraway group of people rather than the men and the women who touch our daily lives.

Few politicians and analysts understand the very real fault lines among Asian sub-groups: Some Asians have done very well for themselves. A lot of them have not.

The biggest reveal was that a lot of these DNA test companies, they're commercial enterprises, right? So they basically purchase or acquire DNA samples based on market demand.

Fox Newss unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative.

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.

Nobody has proved quite as adept as laughing at himself as former President George W. Bush, who willingly conceded to being a class clown, even as a candidate in 1999.

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those stories because they were like poetry.

A generation has witnessed the fight for racial justice from the front lines: Asian Americans have been paying attention, and they are ready to put up a fight.

I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family histories - definitely mine - its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.

It's not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can't actually have a creative work environment if there are no rules and there's no structure.