![]() ![]() ![]() candidates to struggle in this year’s midterms. In August his incisive story about the Arizona Republican Party captured the fanatical bent that would lead many far-right G.O.P. This February, he published a piece on Michael Flynn that showed how the MAGA movement had “reconstituted itself as a kind of shape-shifting but increasingly robust parallel political universe.” A couple months later he was back with a juicy profile of Fiona Hill and other former Trump advisers and officials as they reexamined the pressure campaign on Ukraine in light of Jan. His 2021 profile of Liz Cheney gave readers an early look at the tensions building within the Republican caucus following the Jan. Robert’s work has been defined partly by an especially sharp eye for the way in which the right side of American politics has evolved over the past 15 years. In 2020 his bombshell investigative scoop on White House influence into a 2019 National Intelligence Estimate revealed the corrosive effects of Trump’s battles with U.S. In 2016 he wrote an excellent campaign dispatch from inside the Trump operation, and in 2018 his profile of Nancy Pelosi gave readers an unusually vivid sense of her calculations as she prepared for her second stint as House Speaker. Robert’s work for the magazine over the years has demonstrated the same expertise, assurance, analytical chops, masterful storytelling, skill at reaching and building trust with often hostile sources and a nose for good dirt. invasion of Iraq and this year his deeply reported book, “Weapons of Mass Delusion,” a deeply reported inside look at House Republicans and the rise of a far-right fringe captivated by conspiracy theories. In 2012, he wrote “Do Not Ask What Good We Do,” about the House of Representatives in the wake of the 2010 Tea Party midterms after that, he published “To Start a War,” a fascinating account of the post-9/11 decision-making that led to the U.S. Over the past 15 years he’s published a sequence of essential books about American politics, starting with “Dead Certain,” a narrative account of the George W. Robert, a Texas native, is a deeply sourced reporter with a long and impressive track record covering politics in books and as a magazine journalist. He will be based in Washington, covering politics and political figures, especially Republican officials. We’re thrilled to announce that Robert Draper, who has been a contributing writer at the magazine since 2009, will be coming on board as a staff writer, working for both the Washington bureau and the magazine. ![]()
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