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Staff Writer @TheAtlantic | Author of LIFE ON DELAY (now in paperback) Get in touch:

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4 years
On Tuesday, Jamie Raskin buried his son. On Wednesday, he and his daughter fled the Capitol rampage. On Thursday, he prepared articles of impeachment against the president. I called him last night to talk about all of it:
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Vivek Ramaswamy was not misquoted in my story. Here is the unedited audio and a transcript of our exchange about 9/11 and January 6:
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1 year
Dennis Kucinich, RFK Jr.'s campaign manager, did not particularly enjoy our conversation
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Copy editors are truly incredible. They don't receive (nor seek) attention. They don't win awards, yet they've made every award-winning text you've ever read sound at least 50% sharper, better, cleaner, clearer, smoother, and smarter. They do this every day.
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4 years
Biden is about to give the biggest speech of his life. You may notice him stutter on certain words or sounds. You may feel uncomfortable as you watch. Many people who stutter go their whole lives and never step up to a microphone.
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3 years
Was the recall necessary? No But did we learn some valuable lessons about the 2022 and 2024 elections? Also no
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3 years
Next vaccine needs to prevent daylight savings time
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4 years
Anyone else just constantly thinking about the second wave of this in the fall?
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Good morning from Moynihan where the delays keep rolling in and people keep having nowhere to sit
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4 years
I wrote about Brayden Harrington, whose stutter and poise took the air out of American living rooms tonight:
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"Yesterday is a hard word for me" sounds like a Dashboard Confessional lyric
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4 years
This is what stutterers face every day. I’m in awe of Brayden’s courage and resolve.
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5 years
This used to be my nightmare. In some ways it still is. Fuck it. Should be on around 9:40.
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5 years
Tune in to my show this morning in @MSNBC - @JohnGHendy joins me to talk about his piece. You don’t want to miss this
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4 years
A good way to prove something is overblown is to tweet about it from your hospital bed
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4 years
Literally can't think of anything that would ostracize Sanders's supporters more than the DNC stepping in right now to preemptively shut it all down
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4 years
Rep. Clyburn on NPR just now: "I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination... If the night ends the way it has begun" it's time to "shut this primary down," meaning the DNC should "step in" and cancel future debates.
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Virtually every supporter I interviewed at Biden's Wisconsin rally said the debate was hard to watch. Some told me they wish they could personally encourage him to drop out:
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They're just the Poor Boys, they need no sympathy
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5 years
I've never read a better summation of modern American capitalism: "It was aggregated into larger holdings, then aggregated again, eventually attracting the interest of Wall Street." via @fivefifths
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4 years
Big: According to Congressional procedure, if Lee and Tillis aren't physically present to achieve a quorum, Democrats could boycott the Amy Coney Barrett hearing and block the vote. More: via @russellberman
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2 months
Last week, millions witnessed Biden's frailty, his repeated freeze ups, his mouth hanging agape, his vacant stare into the middle distance, and his frequent inability to present a coherent thought. Such behaviors are not symptoms of stuttering, full stop.
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4 years
This is a wild story: A COVID long-hauler's brain is now littered with tiny lesions causing all sorts of neurological issues, including a stutter he never had before
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4 years
Cheers to Brayden for stuttering before an audience of millions. Notice how he struggles for breaths here. Stuttering takes so much air out of you. You may hear Biden struggle to breathe a bit this way later.
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4 years
You can draw a straight line from Charlottesville, the event that catalyzed Biden's decision to run one final time, to the events of today
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4 years
We’re all dealing with a lot right now, but rest easy knowing you are not one of 12 senators worshipping an aspiring dictator who used to sell shitty steaks exclusively at the Sharper Image
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I keep seeing people asking why @TheAtlantic "isn't covering Trump" and the prospect of Project 2025. The magazine literally devoted an entire issue to the threat of Trump's second-term aspirations
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2 years
Shout out to Marlee Matlin, who threatened to walk away from CODA unless the producers cast other deaf actors in deaf roles
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2 years
Some gun control activists believe it's time to release mass-shooting crime scene photos that are historically hidden from public view It's an agonizing decision for parents
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4 years
I never really wrote (or even spoke) about my stutter until I interviewed Biden last fall. And I never expected stutterers all over the world to send me letters about their own lifelong struggles with this disorder. I’m deeply humbled and grateful to work with @aaknopf on this:
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4 years
Trump's Election Eve rallies feature a montage of Biden's verbal stumbles. Thinking today about the stutterers—plural—who have confided in me that their feelings of shame and inadequacy once brought them to the brink of suicide.
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4 years
My Uncle Ric was one of the 1,993 Americans who died of COVID over the weekend. He contracted it inside an assisted living facility. They moved him to the COVID wing, and he died alone. The pandemic is about to get worse. Just try to be human about it:
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2 months
This is an insult to stutterers, as is "not judge him by too high a standard." (Biden has a law degree!) When I interviewed him 5 years ago he did not exhibit the symptoms he's exhibiting right now. His defenders know this
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig
2 months
Sen. Chris Coons: “We need to remember President Biden for 30 years has been someone who does stutter, and who occasionally misspeaks in small ways and not judge him by too high a standard. He's been the most consequential president in my lifetime.”
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5 years
Nothing but respect for my 4th of July tanks
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4 years
Trump’s lying has taken on a new form in this 60 minutes interview. He doesn’t really fight to convince. He just instinctively, half-heartedly says the opposite of whatever is true. Then it’s on to the next.
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4 years
New York -- the entire STATE -- has only 3,186 ICU beds. We have over 600 documented cases in New York as of today. Stay home. Stay home. Stay home.
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2 months
I stutter. Biden stutters. I have empathy for every living stutterer, including President Biden. With respect to this pastor, right now, people are more concerned with Biden's frailty, his vacant stare, and his regular thought lapses than his stutter:
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Matt Viser
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Pastor from the pulpit in Philadelphia: "I don't know why it is that you want to make an issue of the president and his condition with stammering and not being able, at certain times, to bring forth words while another person lies fluently and you never challenged his lies."
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4 years
[every day leading up to November 3] The Media: "We will not know anything on Election Night. We must psychologically prepare now." [November 4] "Why the hell is this taking so long?"
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4 years
For the past 4 years, I've wanted someone to ask Trump very basic U.S. history questions What were the Articles of Confederation? Who were our allies in World War 2? What did Ben Franklin do?
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4 years
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "The temptation to look away is strong."
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5 years
"I don’t think it’s the job of the Democrats to convince Trump voters to vote for them. I think it’s the job of the Democrats to get out those voters who stayed home the last time." @lyzl in conversation with @emmaogreen
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4 years
Few writers ever manage to do what @TomJunod has done multiple times: Craft a timeless piece of journalism that readers discover, or return to, across decades. No better example than The Falling Man:
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5 years
Biden is speaking at length about stuttering on CNN right now. He’s never done this on such a national televised stage. He’s also stuttering, both intentionally and unintentionally through these answers. Watch it.
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5 years
Nobody can force Biden to say "I still stutter." That's his choice, now and forever. But the confusion and mockery we're seeing right now is why people who stutter want him to say it.
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2 years
Never forget
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2 years
I spent nearly 30 years feeling ashamed of the way that I speak. I’m both terrified and honored to share this story in full. Surreal to say that my book (!) is officially available for preorder: LIFE ON DELAY January 17, 2023 @AAKnopf (fixed link)
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5 years
"Should you exist?" is the only good debate question
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This is like the end of Ferris Bueller when they gun it in reverse hoping to take the mileage off the odometer
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5 years
Biden appeared to intentionally impersonate a child stutterer just now. At other points tonight, Biden has slightly stuttered, blocked, or practiced circumlocution (word-switching) himself.
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4 years
. @ClintSmithIII : "Two days ago, a man walked through the halls of government bearing the flag of a group of people who had seceded from the United States and gone to war against it. Then, presumably, he walked out..."
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2 years
. @SarahLongwell25 says that across 9 focus groups, only 14 percent of Trump 2020 voters want him to run in 2024. In 4 of the groups, zero people wanted Trump to run. "Their reasoning is clear: They’re now uncertain that Trump can win again."
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4 years
"Many of these staffers are people of color, and, especially among the butlers, are more than 50 years old—two qualities associated with higher risk for COVID-19." via @elainejgodfrey and @AdamHSays
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2 years
Next we will read a poem by another beloved Irish band
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4 years
Come for the reporting, stay for @mckaycoppins ’ swift prose, but REALLY stay for the kicker
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. @Yamiche is a study in poise and professionalism every single time
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The president lost his own brother to alcoholism, and yet he still aimed to smear Joe Biden for Hunter Biden's substance abuse. Everything is about Trump's ego preservation. Deeply clarifying @AdamSerwer piece:
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4 years
Cheers to Brayden Harrington who continues to speak with poise and grace
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5 years
Biden's stutter is one of the most misunderstood aspects of his life. It's not a cover, nor is it a catch-all for when he gets his facts wrong. It's something far more complicated:
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4 years
Just a devastating paragraph about the long walk of Lindsey Graham via @IsaacDovere
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4 years
This @RadioFreeTom piece gets right to the core of it
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4 years
As a coping mechanism, I think many people outside of the media and medical communities have simply stopped engaging with the horrors of the pandemic, and the disastrous results are playing out in real time
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John Hendrickson
6 months
This is a remarkable shift in language from Biden -- by far the closest he's ever come to saying "I still stutter"
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Harry, I’ve struggled with a stutter all of my life. Thank you for telling me about yours, and don’t let anyone tell you it will stop you from achieving your dreams. I’m proud of you.
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4 years
The most harrowing detail from my Thursday night interview with Jamie Raskin is cited in the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment report
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2 years
Eugene Goodman remains one of the most consequential Americans in our history
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4 years
It's vital for Trump to tell Americans to embrace a fundamental reordering of daily life, at least for a few weeks or months. He's by no means doing that: via @mckaycoppins
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2 years
Several months ago @ByJamesRobinson asked me to describe the experience of stuttering for a short @nytimes documentary. This is what I said.....(1/3)
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4 years
Have gone full Tony Soprano, eating prosciutto with the fridge door ajar
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4 years
Soaring @elainejgodfrey dispatch from D.C. today w/ @PeterAtlantic and @russellberman
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I’m so grateful for today
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"Before I’m done speaking with them for this story, BTS will have the number-one and number-two songs on the BillboardHot 100..." Stellar @DaveHolmes profile of BTS
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3 years
Record number of accounts on here triple-majored in epidemiology, foreign policy, and prestige television
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Amazing answer to “Do you wear sandals?”
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The biggest comeback since vinyl
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Millions of dollars and hundreds of polls amount to…voters don’t want their rights taken away
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4 years
"The United States is hoping to vaccinate 50 million people by the end of January, and the actual number vaccinated this winter could be even higher." Some end-of-year optimism from @zeynep
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2 years
"For now, [McCarthy] has won over just enough of his critics, and with it, the speakership. All he had to do was sacrifice power, and no small part of his dignity, to get it." via @russellberman
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4 years
I went on @mehdirhasan 's show last night. I still dread TV and can't sleep for days before an interview. It's hard for me to watch because my stutter is most pronounced in these settings. I do it because people who stutter are usually kept off-air entirely
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2 years
Need this man
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Shanahan appears to confirm what I wrote 11 days ago: The Kennedy campaign is poised to draw more votes from Trump than from Harris
@EndTribalism
End Tribalism in Politics
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RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan says they are debating whether to stay in the race or drop out and join forces with Trump: “There’s two options that we're looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Waltz presidency because we
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Talking with Emma and several other people who stutter was extremely meaningful for me in the reporting process. Hearing from hundreds of people who stutter over the past 24 hours has changed my life.
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Emma Alpern
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I was so happy to be a (small) part of @JohnGHendy 's nuanced and demanding profile of Joe Biden -- I think it gets to the heart of what it means to stutter
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Biden tonight: “Nowhere else on earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office." Biden five years ago:
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4 years
What's lost in conversation about recent events is that the 12 senators ideologically represent a constituency of Americans who have broken with reality via @russellberman
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4 years
That round of persistent oxygen questions from competing reporters was a masterclass in journalism
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3 years
I recently spoke with @ChrisMurphyCT about cynicism and despair when it comes to American gun violence. Like millions of people, I've had those feelings since Sandy Hook. But wallowing doesn't breed progress:
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"Pro-Trump America has decided that vaccine refusal is a statement of identity and a test of loyalty."
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3 years
Today is International Stuttering Awareness Day, which is still a bit difficult for me. The majority of us spend every hour of every day trying to hide the fact that we stutter. I did so for about 30 years... (1/3) #ISAD #ISAD21
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"The police and the U.S. military are separate institutions because policing a community and fighting a war are supposed to be separate jobs." via @NickBaumann
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4 years
The next several days will be filled with postmortems about the "shocker" among pro-Trump Latinos in Florida @realcpaz called it last week:
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Early Thursday morning @TheAtlantic published Prof. Paul Kellermann's piece positing that Penn State was refusing a vaccine mandate to appease conservatives in the PA state legislature. Last night, PSU President Eric Barron all but confirmed it:
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4 years
New York City is erupting right now. Go outside. It's electric.
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2 years
Upside of massive delays: bonus time for the best slice in the city
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My colleague @RadioFreeTom grew up near a Strategic Air Command bomber base. “In college and graduate school, I was studying Soviet affairs and strategic issues, and gaining all the detail that added a terrible sense of reality to those dreams..." (1/2)
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5 years
Today is my first day at @TheAtlantic . Here I am looking like a ghost in the doorway
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2 months
Democrats are saying one thing about their leader in public and the opposite in private. Trump, meanwhile, merely has to stand back and watch the fire burn, but he can’t even do that. Trump himself is still a bigger fire, and all fires need oxygen:
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Crazy to think that Warren released her COVID-19 plan in January (before the Iowa caucus) via @IsaacDovere
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