I am a National Writer at Large for the New York Times. [email protected]

New York, USA
Joined October 2010
More than 7,000 Americans died in the wars that followed 9/11. One was from my hometown. If we want to understand the 9/11 era -- and the choices America made -- that collective loss is a big part. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/po…
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My story from Arkansas: A man with strong views on immigrants who finally met the love of his life, a woman who came illegally. People are glad to see the border closed, but conflicted on deportations. “Everybody wants to enforce the law until it hits home with a personal story.”
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This is a must-listen podcast talk between @lourdesgnavarro & her Iraqi colleague Ali Hamdani. This brought up so many emotions for me, including grief over the 2 @nytimes Iraqi colleagues who were killed and many who suffered. A gift listen on the war: nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opini…
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The great @lpolgreen in Haiti, finds "a slender but persistent wisp of hope that this is finally the time to declare a kind of political bankruptcy, clear all old political debts and begin anew" nyti.ms/3CPGqjC
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"I will fight from the inside": How Trump and his generals went to war -- with each other. An excerpt from our new book "THE DIVIDER; Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," with ⁦@sbg1⁩ in this week's ⁦@NewYorker⁩ newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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