@markmazzetti.bsky.social
Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story
A personal and absolutely devastating account of the Texas floods. It is as beautifully written as it is painful to read
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Sure this is going down really well at Langley
NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
NEW: Erik Prince has a contract to conduct lethal operations on behalf of Haiti’s government. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
This Champions League match is a treat. Historic rivals Qatar and the UAE going at it
This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.
Ronen Bergman and @markmazzetti.bsky.social of The New York Times Magazine win the 2025 Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel.”
Honored that the story I wrote with Ronen Bergman is the winner of the 2025 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism given by @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. Here is press release and original story
www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada
Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK
“Memorializing the Holocaust” has been purged from the Naval Academy’s library. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” remain.
By @johnismay.bsky.social
But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?
“So many references to “1984” have flooded the political conversation that it feels as if nearly half the electorate joined the same book group”
Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.
“Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are running the same playbook to achieve strikingly similar goals: to neuter the judiciary, dismantle a system of oversight that puts a check on their authority and discredit national security professionals they see as arrayed against them.”
New w/Patrick Kingsley
Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social
The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner
When Johnny Cash sang at the White House in 1972, he played “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” as an f-you to Nixon.
“So here’s the point. If you really want to see what a deep state is, go look elsewhere. We don’t have one here at home. And we need to keep it that way.”
By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA
Only in Washington would a new "younger and hipper" private club open and feature young and hip members like Howard Lutnick, Steve Mnuchin, and Kirsten Gillibrand
“What is Putin getting? He is getting more than he and other former K.G.B. officers ever dreamed of,” said @calderwalton.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,”
The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.
The More You Know…..
You don’t think a DOGE guy with the nickname Big Balls knows what’s he’s doing?
I hear DOGE is selling off that giant warehouse where they keep the arc of the covenant
Maybe it’s an accident. Or maybe it’s the ultimate troll for Macron to be calling it a “coalition of the willing.”
Maybe, just maybe, some of these DC-based newsletters should take a beat before coming out with an “account” of the Trump-Zelensky meeting based on a single anonymous White House source.
