I’m a politics reporter who’s been on the 2024 campaign beat, most recently for the Columbia Journalism Review and WIRED magazine. From my time at The Daily Beast, you may have heard about my Ron DeSantis pudding fingers story—a sticky anecdote from a longer feature—or the leaked Nancy Mace staff handbook, or that time DeSantis security roughed up a teenager for trying to ask civics-oriented questions. More recently, I broke the story about the terrible working conditions under Elon Musk’s voter turnout operation in Michigan, where paid door knockers were driven around in a U-Haul with no rear seating and threatened to have their lodging payments withheld if they didn’t hit their quotas.
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A scoop on what it’s really like to knock on doors for Elon Musk’s seat-of-the-pants operation in the battleground state of Michigan.
The pudding fingers story.
The Nancy Mace handbook story
Andrew Yang's campaign manager had zero political experience. This is how he built an insurgent candidacy that outlasted powerful rivals.
Running on minimal sleep and a Cumberland Farms XL Chillzone filled with Diet Dr. Pepper, Zach Graumann was in the midst of post-Iowa layoffs, the sprint to voting day in New Hampshire and, ultimately, the end of one of the 2020 campaign's most surprising efforts.
Tom Cotton is already laying the groundwork in New Hampshire for a 2024 presidential run
Sitting cross-legged in front of a rifle display case and dressed for fall in New England with a green fleece vest, Tom Cotton was waiting his turn to speak.
Once a common sight, outdoor hockey no longer a local rite of passage
In pond hockey, there are no boards, no coaches, no sound system, and — perhaps most importantly for many hockey players who cherish memories of staying out on the ice until sunset — no parents.
The claps and bangs of indoor play are replaced with whispering carving noises from skates and whistling wind.
Humble roots to the 'big tent' — Schenectady native Delgado has his eyes on Congress
The first profile of Antonio Delgado, an insurgent candidate who flipped a red district in the 2018 midterms, becoming NY-19’s first African-American congressman.
From the Archives: Alabama agonizes over Trump attacks on Sessions
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RT @SollenbergerRC: NEW: Herschel Walker’s wife didn’t want him to run for Senate—then, five sources say, she thought she could turn ca… https://t.co/FjLuEczGXW
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RT @emmaogreen: My piece on Hillsdale College and its outsize role in the conservative world is in this week's @NewYorker. Come f… https://t.co/s1CLt1XBXX
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Holy smokes it looks like this is where Clarence Thomas was going on those trips to the Adirondacks, a 68 building… https://t.co/NgXg7JBWVK
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RT @anniekarni: In retrospect, this comment seems like a good tip off to look into his vacations. “I prefer the RV parks. I prefer… https://t.co/VUgS7Tf45Z
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RT @willystaley: Ten years ago, we did Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, for Talk. He's possibly the most Outer Borough man in the world: https://t.co/jF8kNAAej0
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Ron DeSantis is looking at his own book being banned from Florida schools, with his latest title going through the… https://t.co/nEeebpPPhU
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RT @KELLYWEILL: It’s Fever Dreams! This week we talked to @daveweigel about the Trump arraignment, Wisconsin’s election, and the ho… https://t.co/INFJ2yEH4n
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RT @maxwelltani: NPR president and CEO John Lansing says in a statement that it is “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.”… https://t.co/7Afh8x9yEA