Joshua Green
Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic who has covered politics since joining the magazine in 2003. He has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Previously, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. He began his career as an editor at the satirical weekly, The Onion (back at a time when that failed to impress anyone). Recently he was named one of Columbia Journalism Review's ten young writers on the rise. His writing has been anthologized in books ranging from The Best American Political Writing 2009 to The Bob Marley Reader.
Recent articles by Joshua Green
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead
Why business professors, ethnomusicologists, sociologists, and (of all things) management theorists are suddenly taking the Grateful Dead very seriously.
Did George W. Bush Doom Mark McGwire?
Somebody blocked the baseball slugger from getting an immunity deal.
Inbred Jed
The Strenuous Life of a B-Movie Zombie.
Selling the Post Dinners
The publisher's email and invitation to one lawmaker show a different side of the story.
The Elusive Green Economy
Barack Obama is preaching the gospel of clean energy. Can he succeed where Jimmy Carter failed?
Cannabusiness
Assembling a hydro hut, buying a gun safe, cleaning up after neighborhood dogs—the ABC’s of opening a pot franchise.
Does A-Rod Have a Date With Congress?
As with the banks, the real danger to Major League Baseball is not about the star players; it’s about what remains hidden.
The Man in the Middle
What Chuck Schumer thinks he knows about the middle class; a profile.
All the Right Moves
Will former NBA all-star Kevin Johnson become the next mayor of Sacramento?
This Story Doesn't Cell
Did Verizon give John McCain special treatment?
Sarah Palin’s Personal Shopper
Meet the Republican Party's fashion guru.
Rethinking 2008
Joshua Green is an Atlantic senior editor. Marc Ambinder is an Atlantic associate editor. He blogs at marcambinder.theatlantic.com.
The "Eagleton Scenario"
Could Sarah Palin become the first running mate since Thomas Eagleton in 1972 to be dropped from a major-party ticket? Joshua Green offers a look at how such a scenario would unfold.
The Palin Effect
Where grassroots delegates and professional operatives part ways.
Why There's No Deal Yet
Henry Paulson’s dropping to one knee to woo Nancy Pelosi suggests, troublingly, that he doesn’t get Congress. The target of seduction should be the leader on the other side of the aisle.
The Front-Runner’s Fall
Hillary Clinton’s campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos—published here for the first time—reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown.
The Hillary Clinton Memos
A complete index to the internal communications referenced in "The Front-Runner's Fall"
Who Says Penn is Finished?
He could be back sooner than you think.
Hillary Goes Out With a Whimper
"Clinton didn't seem angry or betrayed or entitled or any of the things that critics have attributed to her—she seemed merely unenthused, and so did the audience."
Bill Clinton Is Back
"Given the pettiness of recent intraparty squabbling, in particular Clinton's own behavior in the primaries, his speech was a reminder of his astonishing political skill... his legacy and his future as his party's elder statesman are more than intact."
The Amazing Money Machine
How Silicon Valley made Barack Obama this year’s hottest start-up.
He’s Not Joking
Al Franken’s political future—and maybe Democratic dominance of the Senate—depends on his ability to keep a (mostly) straight face between now and November. [Web only: Video: "He's Not Joking"]
McCain's Purple Cow
John McCain's actions on behalf of Vicki Iseman barely differ from the earmarking he has spent a career railing against.
Inside the Clinton Shake-Up
How Hillary's campaign managed itself into a ditch—and how it might get itself out.
'Roid Rage
What the professional sports world doesn't get about Washington.
What's Next for Wall Street?
The presidential campaign has financial executives more concerned about who wins than they have been in years—or it ought to.
Waiting for Gore
Department of Wild Speculation.
Google’s Tar Pit
Can Google “not be evil” and still fend off the government?
The Colbert Notion
Stephen Colbert plans to run for president in South Carolina. Here's a campaign strategy—and a list of who should worry.
The Rove Presidency
Karl Rove had the plan, the power, and the historic chance to remake American politics. What went wrong?
Karl Rove's Voter Fraud Fetish
The Bush administration cracks down on a phantom menace.
They Won’t Know What Hit Them
The software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily fighting sexual discrimination and reshaping American politics.
Surprise Party
Dismayed by the system they helped to create, some veteran political strategists are out to create a better choice in 2008.
Do Polls Still Work?
The last two elections have left pollsters somewhat bloodied but unbowed.
Take Two: Hillary's Choice
How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player.
The New War Over Wal-Mart
The mounting attacks on the world’s largest company could change American business—and transform the health-care system.
The Numbers War
In Washington, measuring the changing size of the Iraqi insurgency has become the battle to watch.
Jock Itch
Lynn Swann's run for governor shows why political pros are big fans of star athletes.
Schools for Scandal
Republicans might—or might not—want to look backward for lessons on handling life under a cloud.
Company, Left
There's something different about the latest crop of military veterans running for Congress.
Roy and His Rock
Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments Judge," has embarked on an odyssey that is taking him and his controversial monument far beyond his home state of Alabama. He wants the Republican Party to bow down.
The Odd Couple
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, old-fashioned Democrats, have the charge—but so far few signs of the ability—to sell their party to America.
It Isn't the Message, Stupid
A new kind of guru is convincing Democrats that they don't need new ideas after all—a snazzy new sales pitch will revive their fortunes.
The Air America Plan
Liberal talk radio is off the ground. Will the electorate turn blue, or just red in the face?
J-School for Jerks
How you, too, can learn to behave like Bill O'Reilly.
Karl Rove in a Corner
Karl Rove is at his most formidable when running close races, and his skills would be notable even if he used no extreme methods. But use them he does.
Dumb and Dumber
Why are campaign commercials so bad?
Playing Dirty
This year's presidential campaign is already shaping up to be even more negative than the last. That's no accident. Our correspondent looks at the cloak-and-dagger world of opposition research—the updated version of "dirty tricks"
Funny Business
When you're running for President, humor is no laughing matter.
Second Coming
Ralph Reed, now born again as a political strategist, has moved on from doing God's work to doing George W. Bush's.
Madonna Wants Me
Every candidate now needs a "celebrity wrangler"—matchmaker to the stars.
The Southern Cross
Georgians want the Confederate emblem back on their state flag, and are frustrated that a referendum this month won't give them that option. What they don't know is that if the emblem's creator were alive, he'd vote to bury it.
A Gambling Man
Blair Hull thinks he has found the formula for how to buy a Senate seat.
In Search of the Elusive Swing Voter
It almost doesn't matter who the Democratic candidate is. In terms of strategy, the road map for the coming presidential campaign was set long before the primaries—and it runs straight through the handful of states with the largest numbers of independent voters. Any candidate needs to hunt them down.
Force Multiplier
Wesley Clark is not Haig and not Eisenhower. And some Democrats are hoping he won't be Cuomo.