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Ashley Parker

Washington, D.C., United States

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

I remain skeptical about Twitter. Also: Senior National Political Correspondent @washingtonpost. @MSNBC analyst. And fmr WaPo WH Buro Chief; @nytimes alum.

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Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Michael Scherer |Ashley Parker

    Interior Secretary Doug Burgum likes chocolate chip cookies—preferably freshly baked and still warm. This peculiar fact became the talk of the Department of Interior in recent weeks after his chief of staff, JoDee Hanson, made an unusual request of the political appointees in his office: Learn to regularly bake cookies for Burgum and his guests, using the industrial ovens at the department headquarters. That request was not the only move by his team that has alarmed some Interior officials.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Michael Scherer |Ashley Parker

    1 day agoBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A $2 million agreement has been reached in a lawsuit over the death of a young woman while she was in custody at a North Dakota county jail in 2020. Lacey Higdem, 19, died of a drug overdose on June 4, 2020, hours after she arrived at the Rolette County Jail in Rolla, according …

  • 3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Ashley Parker

    I miscarried in three acts. The first was the bad appointment: the somber technician; the clinical, straightforward news—not enough growth for eight weeks and, worse, no heartbeat. She was so sorry; the doctor would be in touch.

  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Ashley Parker |Michael Scherer

    Long live the king! Down with the king! President Donald Trump sees the appeal of both. Trump jokingly declared himself a sovereign last month, while his advisers distributed AI-generated photos of him wearing a crown and an ermine robe to celebrate his order to end congestion pricing in New York City. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” he decreed days earlier, using a phrase sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French.

  • 2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Michael Scherer |Ashley Parker |Matteo Wong |Shane Harris

    They arrived casually dressed and extremely confident—a self-styled super force of bureaucratic disrupters, mostly young men with engineering backgrounds on a mission from the president of the United States, under the command of the world’s wealthiest online troll. On February 7, five Department of Government Efficiency representatives made it to the fourth floor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters, where the executive suites are located.

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Ashley Parker
Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker
8 Apr 25

V grateful to have a whole convo w @TVietor08 about miscarriage, pregnancy loss, and how it sometimes hits men and women differently. Watch/listen here—>

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Ashley Parker and Tommy Vietor talk about the importance of connection when dealing with pregnancy loss. @AshleyRParker @TVietor08 https://t.co/1ZkhfzKqnK

Ashley Parker
Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker
6 Apr 25

RT @NateKreckman: Shout-out to the grammar nerd in the CBS graphics department https://t.co/uY2WiWn4kH

Ashley Parker
Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker
6 Apr 25

OH at a kindergarten softball game: “Wait! You didn’t touch third! You’ve got to go back and touch the base! Oh? No? You don’t want to touch third base? Okay! Then run home! Run!” 🥎