POLITICS

I’M A FORMER White House correspondent who lives in Washington, DC, so of course I continue to write about politics.

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For The Atlantic, I wrote about how local governments could raise millions or maybe billions of dollars if they just do one simple and very complex thing: Sell their airports.

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If you ask me, Tomi Lahren should have bought a black Cadillac and not a white one. But, hey, what do I know about being a conservative commentator with a massive online following? For POLITICO Magazine I profiled the right’s rising star.

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I spent six months tracking the rapid growth of Turning Point USA — the biggest conservative student group in the country — and meeting repeatedly with its founder, Charlie Kirk, for this feature in POLITICO Magazine.

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POLITICO Magazine asked me to write about how a career bureaucrat became the face of the Trump Administration’s controversial family separation policy at U.S. borders.

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After Sam Wyly helped bankroll the Swift Boat attack ads against John Kerry, the SEC came after his — and his late brother Charles’ — billion-dollar fortune, filing a a $550 million SEC lawsuit against the brothers. So when I wrote this piece about the case, why wasn’t Sam worried? (After a jury found Sam and Charles liable, I addressed the fallout here.)

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Facebook deactivated my Facebook account once this story about their lobbying operation was published in Washingtonian. (This story won a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Washington, DC, chapter in 2012.)

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As the Washington editor for The Land Report magazine, I covered federal land policy. This was a preview of the Obama Administration’s land policy agenda.

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