Marc Fisher

Washington, D.C.

Columnist and Associate Editor at The Washington Post

Washington Post columnist and associate editor; co-author of 'Trump Revealed,' and author of 'Something in the Air' and 'After The Wall.'

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Articles

It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News (washingtonpost.com) It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News By Marc Fisher 2025050810302000 After all of President Donald Trump's attacks on the purportedly "fake" news media — and after all of his lawsuits against those who dare to criticize him — the news that he and his information czarina, Kari Lake, are going to replace the journalism of Voice of America with the slanted sycophancy of One America News...
Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’ (washingtonpost.com) Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’ By Marc Fisher 2025050709450800 Edwin Jackson's government work was finding jobs for military veterans and then making sure those vets succeeded. Like this: Representing the Social Security Administration at a job fair in Maryland, Jackson meets a paralegal and steers her toward a position at his agency.
In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept (washingtonpost.com) In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept By Marc Fisher 2025043009453500 Two weeks ago, John Reid, a longtime rabble-rousing radio talk show host in Richmond, was the underdog in this year's Republican primary for lieutenant governor in Virginia. Last week, Reid was the undisputed, unopposed GOP nominee for the post.
How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe (washingtonpost.com) How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe By Marc Fisher 2025042309453500 People who used to do Ed Martin's job say he is single-handedly wrecking the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia.
Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work.

3 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Marc Fisher

Developers reshape reality. They dress up the drab and market it as the unique. Donald Trump spent about half a century hawking condos, casinos and all sorts of middling products that he sold as spectacular, with some success (and plenty of failure, too). Now, he’s taking a product with nearly 250 years’ worth of blemishes and beauty spots and he’s remarketing it in his usual style — as utter perfection, made possible exclusively by him.
Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work.

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work. (washingtonpost.com) Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work. By Marc Fisher 2025041609450500 Developers reshape reality. They dress up the drab and market it as the unique. Donald Trump spent about half a century hawking condos, casinos and all sorts of middling products that he sold as spectacular, with some success (and plenty of failure, too).
The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear. (washingtonpost.com) The fuel that feeds the Trump chaos machine? Fear. By Marc Fisher 2025040909455200 Fear is a ferocious force. It can quiet even the most powerful voices and turn previously principled people into amoral jelly. America is in a frenzy of fear: Virtually every lawmaker in Congress has been frozen in angst that President Donald Trump will set his adoring base against them.
Ovechkin fever binds a great player and a city in need of a hero

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Ovechkin fever binds a great player and a city in need of a hero (washingtonpost.com) Ovechkin fever binds a great player and a city in need of a hero By Marc Fisher 2025040416102400 D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has been popping up around town lately calling Washington the "sports capital" of the country. Mmm-hmm, and we're super-popular and fashion-forward and at the cutting edge of the fight against economic inequality, too.
Politicians usually try to add jobs. Trump and Musk aim to vaporize them.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Politicians usually try to add jobs. Trump and Musk aim to vaporize them. (washingtonpost.com) Politicians usually try to add jobs. Trump and Musk aim to vaporize them. By Marc Fisher 2025040209450000 In normal times, government is all about building jobs and boosting the economy.
Trump's Kennedy Center dream? It's 1958 again!

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

It was the early '60s, Chubby Checker was doing the twist and the first records by a British boy band were shooting up the charts on Top 40 radio, but in the dorms at New York Military Academy, one room was still fixed in the 1950s. In the spring of their senior year, many boys in Donald Trump's class at the boarding school not far from West Point discovered and devoured each new release by the Beatles, but in Trump's room, Johnny Mathis was king.