Patrick Caldwell
@patcaldwell
Senior editor @POLITICOMag Pitch me features (not op-eds!) at [email protected]
I edit reported features for @POLITICOMag. Profiles, scene dispatches, narrative reconstructions, unobserved trends, and always investigations — send them all my way! (If you’ve got a straight opinion take essay, I’m not your guy.)
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88-year-old D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells me this AM: “I’m certainly going to run for reelection.” (Her office has repeatedly walked this back already: axios.com/2025/06/25/nor…)
Who’s Happy About Trump’s Call to Restore 'Redskins'? Lefties Who Want to Squash the Stadium Deal. politi.co/46WdW7g @michaelschaffer checks in on the local side after Trump tried to muck up the city's NFL deal
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
And read Adam's stellar profile of Talarico from two years ago politico.com/news/magazine/…
Democrat on Rogan alert: youtu.be/_jOGPvMftb8
“They basically said they’re no longer considering Washington, D.C., or no longer considering the United States.” tinyurl.com/m3yv4kzd
"More and more, children are being picked up on family vacations, at traffic stops, and at worksites, and winding up in detention." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Is Trump Using an Obscure Architecture Board to Fire Jerome Powell? politico.com/news/magazine/… Great story by @michaelschaffer, who was the lone reporter at this largely unknown urban planning board that now features the deputy WH chief of staff
Glad @michaelschaffer wrote this. An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? politi.co/4eHIHPq via @politico
Fantastic new piece on America’s favorite documentarian, and what he can — and what he cannot — offer a fracturing country still wrestling with its history. politico.com/news/magazine/…
"The choice to rebel has become so familiar that it can be hard to see how extraordinary it was" politico.com/news/magazine/…
Covid times elevated a host of unlikely voices from the trenches of public health and medicine, including Ohio’s Amy Acton, who now wants to be the state’s next governor. My dispatch for @POLITICOMag: politi.co/45LiI7d
Can ‘Ohio’s Anthony Fauci’ Stage a Political Comeback? politico.com/news/magazine/… Great feature by @lizskalka on Amy Acton, the politician whose campaign is inherently forcing voters to remember life during the early days of the pandemic
10 years after marriage equality, Jim Obergefell is still struggling to move on from the grief of losing his husband — and America is still struggling to move on from anti-LGBT politics. I wrote about his ongoing fight for LGBT rights in @POLITICOMag: politico.com/news/magazine/…
Inside the MAGA plan to rebuild Penn Station, by @ianwardreports politico.com/news/magazine/…
The Trump Town That's Happy to Turn Against Its Canadian Neighbors politico.com/news/magazine/…
America Actually Does Do Military Parades. But Not Like This One. politi.co/43ZYmEq Great piece by @michaelschaffer looking at just what's so off about Trump's birthday bash this weekend
