Toluse Olorunnipa
@ToluseO
Pulitzer winner. Staff writer for @TheAtlantic. Formerly @washingtonpost. Co-author of "His Name is George Floyd.” Tips?: [email protected]
400+ interviews. 400+ years of history. 400+ pages. His Name is George Floyd, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, now out in paperback. sites.prh.com/HisNameIsGeorg…

Can the abundance movement save the Democrats? The idea of building, fixing and providing more is sweeping the Democratic Party. But some critics say that in the era of Trump, it entirely misses the point, by @NaftaliBendavid washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
The Atlantic Festival’s official agenda is out now! Join great minds that don’t think alike including @RobertDowneyJr , Clara Wu Tsai, Walter Mosley, and many others, in September in New York City. Passes are on sale now. #TAF25 theatlantic.com/theatlanticfes…
NEW: Read @NickMiroff on the CBP chief who's taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Biden aides look to Fifth Amendment amid widening probe into acuity, autopen washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Killer Train: Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by @MiamiHerald and @WLRN has found. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
SCOOP ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings by @CarolLeonnig & me washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
Flattery, Firmness and Flourishes: World leaders trade tips on how to manage trip, from me + @isaacstanleybecker: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
World Cup skepticism is driven by concerns over whether a president who has taken actions to close America’s borders and imposed wholesale bans on residents from some countries can host a quadrennial celebration of global camaraderie. @mviser wapo.st/4kxX5uD
Calling Trump & his allies "liars," Biden told me over the phone that he orally made all clemency decisions recorded w/ an autopen at the end of his term and discussed several in detail. NYT also reviewed several dozen Biden WH emails showing process. w/ @tylerpager *links follow
NEW: I tried to interview Joe Biden for my book on the 2024 election. I called his cell phone, and he agreed but cut it short as he boarded an Amtrak train. His aides then changed his number. NYT excerpt of 2024, w @jdawsey1 + @iarnsdorf —out today! nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/…
NEW: Biden’s climate law boosted red states. Their lawmakers are now gutting it. By @ToluseO: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
July 13, 2024: How Trump’s near miss coincided with Biden’s last stand wapo.st/44Gn5PI A reminder of how wild July 2024 was, excerpted from the excellent book “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America" by @jdawsey1 @tylerpager @iarnsdorf
When you add up everything the government is prepared to sacrifice in its relentless pursuit of Abrego Garcia—as @NickMiroff does here—the tab is astonishing theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Scoop: Trump officials plan to have resettled 1,000 Afrikaners by the end of September, while also blocking other refugees (that a federal judge ordered must be allowed entry) under the president’s travel ban wapo.st/4elieXu
My latest Mamdani vs. Trump is the sharpest example of a wider global trend
NEW: The Trump administration is trying to scare migrants into self-deporting and reporting their departures in the CBP Home app. More than 7,000 people have signed up so far, and of those, more than 3,000 have left, @NickMiroff reports. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…