Mark Leibovich

Washington, D.C., United States

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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Your Daily Phil: Grays’ anatomy of a $125 million donation to TAU

1 week ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Mark Leibovich |Olivia B. Waxman

Recent Issues Good Friday morning.
Tim Walz Looks Into the Void

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

Tim Walz and I were sitting down for breakfast earlier this month at a Courtyard by Marriott in Independence, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Walz, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate last year, is still the governor of a state that happens not to be Ohio—or West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, or Texas, all of which he had visited recently. This was a bit curious, especially because it is not a presidential-election year.
Trump Says He Is Serious About a Third Term

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

President Donald Trump keeps getting asked about the possibility of seeking a third term in 2028. “Well, there are plans,” he recently told NBC’s Kristen Welker, who became the latest interviewer to raise the topic. She will almost certainly not be the last. This appears to be by design—Trump’s design. His answers always contain enough tantalizing ambiguity to keep people interested: What plans exactly? “There are—not plans,” Trump said to Welker, correcting himself, if not clarifying anything.
Democrats Have a Problem

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

Democrats have a problem: too many problems. Identifying the problems is not one of those problems. “Democrats have a trust problem,” suggests Representative Jason Crow of Colorado. “Democrats have a big narrative problem,” adds Representative Greg Casar of Texas. “Democrats have a vision problem,” says Representative Ro Khanna of California. In general, Democrats have a “Democrats have a problem” problem.
Five Minutes With Ringo Starr for The Atlantic

1 month ago | dinalitovsky.substack.com | Mark Leibovich |Dina Litovsky

In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationI don’t like checking email when I’m high, but sometimes I space out and compulsively refresh my iPhone, hoping for something new and shiny. That’s how I clicked on an email from The Atlantic, which said, “Wondering if you might be free this Friday for a shoot in Nashville?
The World Still Needs Ringo Starr

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

Listen1.0x0:0033:54Listen to more stories on harkLet’s start with something that I’m not proud of but feels important to disclose up front. Last spring, I was interviewing Ringo Starr at the Sunset Marquis hotel, in West Hollywood, when I committed an embarrassing breach of journalistic ethics: As we were wrapping up, I asked Starr if he would pose for a photo with me. “Or is that grossly unprofessional?” I asked, trying to come off as sheepish and apologetic. Starr smirked.
The World Still Needs Ringo Starr

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Mark Leibovich

1 day agoThe stark monochrome sleeve and shit-tier recording quality of the Beatles’ most famous bootleg stands in for a whole era of the band’s history—their un-housebroken Hamburg years, when they wore jeans and leather jackets; when they ate, drank, smoked and swore onstage; when they were a band rather …
It’s Not Easy Being (Marjorie Taylor) Greene

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

Where have you gone, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird? In a more innocent time, the hallowed puppets of Sesame Street were recurring characters in congressional debates about public broadcasting.
It’s Not Easy Being (Marjorie Taylor) Greene

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Mark Leibovich

The Georgia Republican edited her social media post but the gaffe lived on. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) drew mockery on Tuesday for accidentally doing one thing she claims to be furiously against. Namely, referring to the body of water that President Donald Trump has controversially decreed …
A Good Old-Fashioned Washington Scandal

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Mark Leibovich

But really, who among us hasn’t inadvertently shared secret plans about an imminent military strike on Yemen with the editor in chief of The Atlantic? Wait, what? Occasionally, Washington gets hit with one of those stories. The kind that halts the busy company town in its divided tracks. Everyone seems to unite, at least briefly, in disbelief. A single dominant topic comes along and crushes everything, and all the rest is suddenly beside the point.