Politico Magazine, 2016

Checking an item off my bucket list, I covered the 2016 presidential campaign as a contributing editor at Politico Magazine, the longform arm of Politico.com.

Hired—by my old friends Steve Heuser and Peter Canellos—as an outsider at the pre-eminent organ for Beltway insiders, I was given free reign to bring in new voices and find untold stories. The stories I assigned and edited—including off-the-trail tales about the cultural shift pushing evangelicals to Trump, and a first-person account of working at Trump Magazine—often ended up as the coveted “Friday Cover.”