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Mark Leibovich
@MarkLeibovich
Former NYT as of 1/1/22; The Atlantic, as of 4/1/22.
Author: Thank You For Your Servitude, Out 7/12
Also: This Town, Big Game, Citizens of the Green Room
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They should toss a few sacks of potato’s in there, like it’s a Five Guys
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Info releasable only to “Five Eyes” intel network spilled all over the floor of the storage room
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. tells the definitive story of Trump’s lapdogs: Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, and all the parasitic suck-ups who humored him down to the last, exhausted strains of American democracy. (From 2022)
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"It’s as sincere as the grief at a Mafia funeral."
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I get this a lot !
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This is also what I do when @MarkLeibovich greets me
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To folks complaining about the paywall blocking them from reading my CNN piece:
There has never been a better day to subscribe to . Here's a thread of our journalism you'll immediately have access to:
on baseball's reinvention
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Can Baseball Save Chris Licht?
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Is that Cousin Greg is in the background (far right)?
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“Beware of the leader in this country, who you have handed leadership to, who has never made a mistake, who has never done anything wrong, who — when something goes wrong — it's always someone else's fault, and who has never lost,” Chris Christie says as he announces his run.
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Thanks to (the best newspaper in the world) and for this extremely kind review of The Big Break!
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“I’m trying to decide if I want to say this or not,” Scott Servais said—always a sentence that makes a reporter’s ears perk up. He glanced at his PR babysitters. “There are games when I’m sitting there in the dugout, and I will think, This is boring.”
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“If we had let this game evolve on its own,” Theo Epstein told Mark Leibovich, “we were on our way to an unwatchable sport.” How Major League Baseball overcame its existential crisis:
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"The so-called national pastime’s fade into bygone territory has happened simultaneously with my brain speeding up to receive the various dopamine pelts coming at me from my phone, laptop, NFL RedZone channel, or whatever else captures my attention."
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triston mckenzie threw 5 innings of 1 hit baseball with 10 k's in his season debut on sunday.
to honor his dazzling performance, read on how baseball is back baby!
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Our new cover—this banger of a story on how baseball saved itself—is going to produce more than the usual confusion between and
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"In general, the “baseball must be timeless” decree is lazy and dumb, and typically trotted out by those who have never endured a 37-minute inning with a melting-down 6-year-old on a school night."
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He set out to write baseball’s obituary. Instead found the game’s leaders engaged in a desperate—and maybe successful—effort to save it. Read our July/ August cover story: on.theatln.tc/LZsrr4R
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".. baseball needs to attract new fans. But there’s a parallel notion .. Change can invigorate at any age. .. Obsolescence is a choice.”
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A privilege to know this man. God bless Howard King
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“His whole act can feel like a clunky contrivance—a forced persona railing against phony or hyped-up outrages.”
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Real-life Ron DeSantis, in the fidgety flesh
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His whole act can feel like a clunky contrivance—a forced persona railing against phony or hyped-up outrages.
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Ron DeSantis is trying to do retail politics, @MarkLeibovich reports. But it does not look fun for him:
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Ron DeSantis is trying to do retail politics, reports. But it does not look fun for him:
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This meme is unbeaten
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This was exactly the expression I watched the game with.
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This year’s Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 was the highest viewed Eastern Conference Finals game ever on TNT, per @richarddeitsch
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Chip Roy (not Kendall) is the eldest boy!
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One of those classically sad America-Circa-Now stories. Evergreen kudos to the exquisite
“The episode quickly became an example of another media phenomenon: the distortion of complex, painful events to fit an opportune political narrative.”
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"It’s almost impossible to imagine that Woodrow Wilson was the one public figure whom Freud felt compelled to put on the couch..."
But he did. Read on this very strange history.
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This was the difference-maker, in my view
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Every angle of the reactions to Derrick White’s miracle at the buzzer
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