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I’M A FORMER <\/strong><\/span>White House correspondent who lives in Washington, DC, so of course I continue to write about politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For The Atlantic<\/strong><\/mark><\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> I profiled the right’s rising star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spent six months tracking the rapid growth of Turning Point USA \u2014 the biggest conservative student group in the country \u2014 and meeting repeatedly with its founder, Charlie Kirk, for this feature in POLITICO Magazine<\/strong><\/mark><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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POLITICO Magazine<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Sam Wyly helped bankroll the Swift Boat attack ads against John Kerry, the SEC came after his \u2014 and his late brother Charles’ \u2014 billion-dollar fortune, filing a a $550 million SEC lawsuit against the brothers. So when I wrote this piece<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> about the case, why wasn’t Sam worried? (After a jury found Sam and Charles liable, I addressed the fallout here<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> deactivated my Facebook account once this story about their lobbying operation was published in Washingtonian<\/em>. (This story won a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists\u2019 Washington, DC, chapter in 2012.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the Washington editor for The Land Report<\/em> magazine, I covered federal land policy. This was a preview of the Obama Administration’s<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> land policy agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’M A FORMER White House correspondent who lives in Washington, DC, so of course I continue to write about politics. 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. If you ask me, Tomi<\/p>\n

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