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Michael Scherer

Washington, D.C., United States

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

Washington Post national political reporter. The people decide. "You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.”

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  • 2 weeks ago | pnp.de | Michael Scherer

    Nicht nur in der Bundesliga oder in der Champions League fallen Traumtore, sondern auch im bayerischen Amateurfußball. Ein solches ist jetzt Nico Reitberger gelungen – und prompt wurde der Kicker vom Landesligisten SSV Eggenfelden für den „Bayern-Treffer des Monats“ März 2025 nominiert. Die Ecke fliegt in den Strafraum, ein Abwehrspieler köpft den Ball im hohen Bogen aus dem Strafraum, dort wartet schon Reitberger (25), Linksfuß, technisch versiert.

  • 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 …

  • 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.

  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Michael Scherer

    The distant past and potential future of the Democratic Party gathered around white plastic folding tables in a drab New Jersey conference room last week. There were nine white men, three in hoodies, two in ball caps, all of them working-class Donald Trump voters who once identified with Democrats and confessed to spending much of their time worried about making enough money to get by.

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RT @realBobWoodward: FEAR, my first book on Trump published in 2018, showed Trump’s obsession with tariffs and how his top economic adviser…