Mark Leibovich
He is the author of five books, including three New York Times best sellers, and two No. 1 Times best sellers, This Town (2013) and Thank You for Your Servitude (2022). He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award for profile writing. Before joining The Atlantic in 2022, he spent 16 years at The New York Times, based in Washington, serving as the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Prior to that, he worked at The Washington Post, where he covered technology and national politics. He is also a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
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Tony Luong for The Atlantic Moneyball Broke Baseball
But now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it.
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Sophie Park / The New York Times / … Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride
The ultimate performative politician doesn’t seem to enjoy the in-person performance of politics.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: G Fiume / … Chris Christie Doesn’t Want to Hear the Name Trump
My very strange and angry breakfast with the former governor
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Won’t Trump’s Rivals Just Say It?
Now is an ideal moment for Republicans to free themselves from the former president.
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Ryan Pfluger for The Atlantic Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act
What happens when the Terminator turns 75
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic. Source: Eric Baradat … The Case for a Primary Challenge to Joe Biden
There must be some freethinking Democrat who’s willing to get in the race.
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The Atlantic; Kevin Sabitus / Getty The Quiet Desperation of Tom Brady
There’s a reason it was so hard for him to retire—he knew the void it would leave.
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Michael Allio / Icon Sportswire / Getty The Dark Pageant of the NFL
If football is about to undergo some hint of a reckoning, it will be only partial.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Republican Party Is in a Strange Place
“Republicans don’t have a Trump problem. They have a voter problem.”
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Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty Just Wait Until You Get to Know Ron DeSantis
People who haven’t met him think he’s a hot commodity. People who have met him aren’t so sure.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Tipping Point of Stupid
In most states, you can’t pass yourself off as an election-denying January 6 truther and still be taken seriously by a majority of voters.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Liz Cheney, the Republican From the State of Reality
She isn’t really fighting to keep her seat in Congress. She’s fighting Donald Trump.
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Gabriel Carr The Most Pathetic Men in America
Why Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and so many other cowards in Congress are still doing Trump’s bidding
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Why Biden Shouldn’t Run in 2024
Yes, he’s fit to be president right now. But he’s too old for the next election.
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Dolly Faibyshev / Redux Is Larry Hogan Living in a Fantasy World?
The Maryland governor is on a crusade to bring back Reaganism when his party’s embrace of Trumpism has never looked stronger.
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Getty; The Atlantic Just Call Trump a Loser
His record is clear. Some nervy Republican challenger should say so.
