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Marc Fisher
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After four decades at The Washington Post, now writing for various magazines, plus the occasional book. Pictured here moving the Nats Park chef to tears.
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Here’s my conversation with Terry Gross on today’s Fresh Air, about my @newyorker profile of FBI director Kash Patel: How Kash Patel is roiling the FBI and changing its mission one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5613...
🔊 Listen Now: How Kash Patel is roiling the FBI and changing its mission
Fresh Air on NPR One | 44:13
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November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The best Kash Patel story I've read. "The dangerous character" who is destroying the FBI. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... by @marcfisher.bsky.social @newyorker.com
Kash Patel’s Acts of Service
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Just posted: "Hatchet Man," my profile of Kash Patel, the deeply transactional FBI director, in The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Kash Patel’s Acts of Service
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Here’s The Post obituary on Dick Cheney, the powerful vice president who shaped the war on terrorism. Former Post reporter Bart Gellman and I wrote the piece over the course of two decades

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Dick Cheney, powerful vice president during war on terrorism, dies at 84
After 9/11, he used his role as President George W. Bush’s chief strategist to approve the use of torture and steer U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The great Susan Stamberg, who as much as anyone created the personality of National Public Radio, has died. Here’s my look at NPR and Stamberg in her prime, from 1989:
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THE SOUL OF A NEWS MACHINE
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October 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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New column: In Virginia, Trumpian rhetoric and heightened security spoil democracy’s grand show

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Opinion | On the campaign trail in 2025: Harsh rhetoric and muscle-bound men
Security concerns once limited to presidential campaigns are now sadly evident in governor’s races.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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New column: Virginia governor’s race puts ‘they/them’ back on the ballot, where it doesn’t belong

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Opinion | Virginia governor’s race puts ‘they/them’ back on the ballot
Republican Earle-Sears’s campaign sees votes in transgender issues. But have voters moved on?
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September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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New column: Republicans in the House move to strip D.C. residents of any say in who becomes local judges. But back in their own states, it's the voters who pick judges. wapo.st/3ItJnvW
Opinion | Republicans to D.C.: High-speed police chases are ‘fun’!
Lawmakers are foisting policies on the capital that would not be allowed in their home states.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New column: An alien force arrives, uninvited, to defend your city. Residents see armed troops chatting with tourists, frightening immigrants and mulching plant beds. What’s a mayor to do? Fight or cave?
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Opinion | Fight or cave: What’s a mayor to do?
Bowser’s appeasement won’t save D.C. home rule.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Just posted on momentmag.com: Eight decades later, the language of the Holocaust can still silence rational debate. Which waves of state violence qualify as “genocide”? Nazi terminology is often wielded as a weapon against Trump. When are such comparisons useful? momentmag.com/opinion-invo...
Opinion | Invoking the Holocaust? Proceed with Caution
There is a reason historians insist on the singular nature of the Shoah.
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September 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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New column -- Let's go where the National Guard isn't: The view from the other D.C. wapo.st/47Wk53M
Opinion | Where there’s no sign of the National Guard in D.C.
In Southeast Washington, residents see no sign of Trump’s federal forces.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The tragedy of Trump: He’s (mostly) right about the problem, and doesn’t give a hoot about finding lasting solutions. Case in point: crime in D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump says a lot of stuff. What he does leaves D.C. no better off.
The president seems not to have thought through his plan to end crime in the capital.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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James Dobson, founder of the evangelical Focus on the Family, a political powerhouse for decades, is dead. Here’s my profile of Dobson from back during his heyday:

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THE GOP, FACING A DOBSON'S CHOICE
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August 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Making being in the president’s cabinet great again: Free, taxpayer-paid housing for Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, living large and free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home on the D.C. waterfront

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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
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August 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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"The tragedy of Trump is that he rarely translates his uncanny knack for identifying the problems that really bother voters into helpful solutions," @marcfisher.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4m6Wx0q
Opinion | On D.C., Trump has the right idea but the wrong reaction. As usual.
If the president had proposed real solutions, he could have been of some service.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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New column: On D.C., Trump has the right idea but the wrong reaction. As usual. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | On D.C., Trump has the right idea but the wrong reaction. As usual.
If the president had proposed real solutions, he could have been of some service.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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It’s 1st and goal for a new stadium, but a touchdown for D.C. is iffy — new column:

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Opinion | It’s 1st and goal for a new stadium, but a touchdown for D.C. is iffy
City politicians and the team are promising growth on a scale that football stadiums don’t generate.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Following Post report, Smithsonian says it will restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’ wapo.st/3UbXyrU
Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’
A placard referring to Trump’s two impeachments was removed in July, after the Smithsonian agreed to perform a “content review”
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August 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Post Exclusive: Under pressure from White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. Now the text reads that "only 3 presidents seriously faced removal," meaning A. Johnson, Nixon and Clinton -- not Trump. wapo.st/3HhfyxU
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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New column: No, parents shouldn’t get to decide what books are assigned in school. Yes, parents should be able to push back against schools’ excesses. The system is — quite beautifully—built to be contradictory. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A third way between parental rights and teacher expertise
Public schools are a balancing act — which is why Montgomery County should listen to its parents.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"When the going gets rough, the distracter in chief cracks open a box of oldies but goodies and cranks up the loudspeakers," @marcfisher.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4nYUgFQ
July 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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New column: That grinding noise you hear is the president revving up the Distraction Machine. Forget Epstein! I put sugar back in Coke! I'm bringing back the Redskins name!
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Opinion | Sleight of Trump: Forget Epstein! Get rid of ‘Commanders’!
When the president runs into trouble, he revs up the outrage machine and spits out distractions.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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New column: DC voters put Trayon White back in office, once again standing up for politicians when they are accused of being crooks by the powers that be. But it’s time for the DC Council to expel White again.

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Opinion | D.C. voters say Trayon White is coming back. But he needs to go.
The corruption charges against him require that the D.C. Council expel him a second time — now.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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New column: Why attack colleges? To open students’ minds or blow up institutions?

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Opinion | Why attack colleges? To open students’ minds or blow up institutions?
George Mason University makes no sense as a target for the Trump administration.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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D.C. voters return indicted and expelled Ward 8 council member Trayon White to office

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D.C. Ward 8 voters return indicted Trayon White to office after expulsion
White beat opponents ANC Chair Salim Adofo, attorney Mike Austin and public servant Sheila Bunn for the seat.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM