I joined The Times in 2010, and have written extensively about national politics and policy-making in Washington. I documented Mr. Obama's history-making presidency, including extensive reporting on passage of the Affordable Care Act and unsuccessful efforts at comprehensive immigration reform. I covered all four years of Mr. Trump's chaotic presidency, and am the co-author of “BORDER WARS: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration,” published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster. I reported from Capitol Hill during the first Trump impeachment, documenting the attempt by Democrats to oust him from office over his effort to strong-arm Ukraine's government for dirt on a political opponent.
During 2020, I worked with investigative teams at The Times to document the Trump administration's response to the Covid crisis. I was a leading member of the team that won the Pulitzer Gold Medal Public Service prize for the paper's coverage of the pandemic and its health and economic consequences. As I did during each of the prior two administrations, I travel the world with Mr. Biden, including a recent trip to Europe for a high-stakes meeting with President Putin of Russia.
Before coming to The Times in 2010, I spent 18 years at The Washington Post, writing about local communities, school districts, state politics, the 2008 presidential campaign and the White House. A member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, I am a 1990 graduate of Claremont McKenna College and have a masters in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I have two college-age children and live in Washington with my wife.
Masters in Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
B.A., Government and Journalism
Claremont McKenna College, 1990
The Washington Post:
White House correspondent · January, 2009 to September 2010
The Washington Post:
National Political correspondent - March, 2007 to January 2009
The Washington Post:
Political reporter, March 1993 to March 2007
Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service
I helped lead coverage of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic at The New York Times, including several investigative stories about the Trump administration's failures to confront the virus and its consequences.
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
I was part of a team of reporters at the The Washington Post who received the Pulitzer in 2008 for what the board called the paper's "exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, telling the developing story in print and online."
Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting
I was a member of the staff of the San Jose, California Mercury News which won the general news prize for its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath.