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Michelle Cottle

Michelle Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion and is a host of the podcast “Matter of Opinion.” She has covered Washington and politics since the Clinton administration.

She joined The Times in 2018 as the editorial board's national political writer after reporting on the nation's capital as a contributing editor for The Atlantic. Before that, Ms. Cottle was a senior writer at National Journal specializing in long-form profiles. From 2010 to 2014 she served as a Washington correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Earlier, she was a longtime senior editor at The New Republic; some of her work there later appeared in "The Best American Political Writing of 2009." She also was an editor of The Washington Monthly magazine. Born and raised in the South, she has a B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University.

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