Pulitzer winner. Staff writer for @TheAtlantic. Formerly @washingtonpost. Co-author of "His Name is George Floyd.” Tips?: [email protected]
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His Name is George Floyd, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, now out in paperback.
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The predicted blue wave seems to grow by the day, @RussellBerman reports. Can a Navy veteran sail it to victory in South Carolina? theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Driving through Arizona on a Saturday morning, I saw a line of cars nearly a mile long stopped along a high-desert highway. I slowed, thinking there had been an accident. Then I realized that all of those people were waiting in line for food.
Weeks later, I went back to try to understand what was going on: Going Hungry in Trump’s Economy
The president said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so.
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SCOOP: Some of Zelensky's advisers, and even a few European officials, have called for him to get more aggressive in striking Russian airports.
There are signs his cautious view on such attacks is shifting, especially as Trump starts giving Russia cover.
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President Trump said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so, @yvonnewingett reports
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Trump has been looking for a scapegoat ahead of the midterm elections—and appears to have settled on Ukraine, @JonLemire and @shustry report. They spoke to people in the president’s orbit about his thinking: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
While swarms of autonomous AI agents were escaping their testing environments and carrying out sophisticated hacking attacks this past summer, researchers interested in AI and election security were running tests of their own. The results were ominous.
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The midterms are vulnerable to AI-driven disinformation—and election officials have yet to find a way to address it, @ToluseO reports. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Kathy Hochul was all but dismissed by Democrats not long ago, @russellberman writes. But now she’s earned back the respect of the party—and there’s a “long line of people asking for forgiveness,” the New York governor said. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Trump is considering striking Iran before the midterms, hoping to show progress in the war and lower gas prices, @NancyAYoussef and @JonLemire report.
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Cubans in Miami have tried to reach Marco Rubio through church services, party invitations, and prom dates, @ksieff reports. Everyone has the same question: What’s his plan for regime change?
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Exclusive: Is there anything Kash Patel won’t do for Trump before the midterms? @S_Fitzpatrick reports from inside the FBI.
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Many Republicans' closing strategy in the midterm elections is to go all-in on trans issues—and it's not clear Democrats have figured out how to neutralize the GOP’s attacks without betraying their coalition, @elainejgodfrey reports. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
The Democratic base is eager to see Trump held accountable for some of his actions, and congressional investigators are quietly preparing for next year, @MViser reports:
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Josh Shapiro sounds a lot like Barack Obama, @russellberman writes. He reports on what this Obamaesque echo may offer the governor in future elections theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with more than 40 current and former administration officials, FBI employees, members of Congress and their staff and others close to the White House who described Patel as desperate to help DOJ indict putative malefactors and stimulate headlines to please the president. Is there anything Patel won’t do for Trump before the midterms? theatlantic.com/politics/202…
President Trump says that his ICE crackdown is behind falling crime rates—a claim contradicted by his own administration’s data, Jack Rodriquez-Vars and @NickMiroff report. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
NEW: The Baltic states are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it, @isaacstanbecker reports.
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NEW: Trump says steep drop in violent crime is the result of his immigration crackdown. A comparison of FBI data and ICE stats doesn’t show that. Many of the places where homicides & violent crime are falling fastest...
A Republican fundraising consultant alerted her colleagues this month in a private message about a hot new business opportunity from an unlikely source: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, @michaelscherer and @mviser report. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
