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Staff writer at the Atlantic.

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  1. Feb 2

    While I’m self promoting, I wrote a book about Amazon that is sold on Amazon, though I suggest it is possible to buy it elsewhere. …

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  2. Feb 2

    And a piece I wrote in 2014 urging the government to throw the antitrust book at Bezos after he dominated the book biz.

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  3. Feb 2

    Having won American capitalism, Jeff Bezos calls it quits....now it’s time for government and society to belatedly reckon with the power he amassed. I’ve been writing about this for a few years. Here’s a profile I wrote sketching Bezos’ world view.

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    Jan 7

    Today began a special 12-day run of Playbook written by an eclectic group of guests from the media world. Each will synthesize and analyze the news in their unique way. Kicking us off is the brilliant James Bennet ().

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  5. Jan 6

    It’s such a shame that a mask is obscuring Mitt Romney’s reactions to Josh Hawley, but the rapid blinking and reddened forehead are pleasingly polemical.

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  6. 23 Dec 2020

    I've been writing about Manafort for years. It was painful to absorb this latest turn. But the lesson of his life is that venality always prevails in the end. I should have seen this coming...

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  7. 23 Dec 2020

    I tried to escape Paul Manafort, but he pulled me back in.

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  8. 23 Dec 2020

    For Jared Kushner, his dad’s pardon is the ultimate trophy. His whole existence has been about removing the stain of criminality from the family. I wrote about his pathological obsequiousness toward father figures last summer.

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    18 Dec 2020

    **Some Personal News** THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order. It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1)

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  10. 26 Nov 2020

    The great Valdano writes of Maradona’s passing: “Today even the ball, the most inclusive, shared of toys, feels alone, inconsolably weeping for the loss of its owner, its master.”

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  11. 25 Nov 2020

    Wrote a quick take on the book merger. It’s not the gravest threat to publishing. The industry is screwed because of the little online bookseller out in Seattle.

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    18 Nov 2020

    I did a counterfactual about what election 2020 might have been like if election 2106 hadn't been upended by Comey letter. I think it's fun.

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    17 Nov 2020

    Nothing feels like turning the page on the Trump presidency quite like seeing book deals about the Biden administration...

    Some home news: I’m psyched to be writing a book about the first frame of the Biden presidency, as it wrestles with seemingly every known crisis, for .
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  14. 17 Nov 2020

    Some home news: I’m psyched to be writing a book about the first frame of the Biden presidency, as it wrestles with seemingly every known crisis, for .

    NEW — ⁦⁩ is writing a book about the first 100 days of the Biden admin.
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  15. 12 Nov 2020

    How resourceful was the DHS unit that Trump wants to purge? It recruited a bunch of Stanford kids to hunt for bugs that could ruin the election. is one of the great civil servants.

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  16. 12 Nov 2020

    I’ve tracked DHS’s election efforts. They were heroic. Without any real money or new authority, they bolstered the safety of election infrastructure markedly and made local officials sharper. Of course, Trump is now rewarding their efforts by pushing their leaders out the door.

    Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees: “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.“
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  17. 8 Nov 2020

    The most Jared move ever.

    Kushner asked a group of political advisers to go to White House to explain to Trump the "small chances of changing the outcome of the election," but declined to go with them himself. (via )
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  18. 8 Nov 2020

    The great ⁦⁩ once wrote a totally winning profile of Alex Trebek, well worth revisiting today. She dubbed him, the Last King of Middlebrow.

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  19. 7 Nov 2020

    I wrote this piece about how Joe Biden thinks about finitude—his own and the slippery nature of time—and how it shapes the sense of urgency he brings to his new job.

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  20. 7 Nov 2020

    It’s funny to listen to Rick Santorum suddenly scanning speeches carefully for dog whistles.

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