The history and practice of opposition research, the "dark art" of American politics.
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Tough Cookie
Election Day is two weeks away, but Democratic operative Tyson Brody deserves kudos for his opposition research this cycle.
A 2009 graduate of Columbia University, Brody worked for Barack Obama in 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Bernie S...
Windows
For the podcast that inspired this newsletter, we dedicated an entire episode to the topic of timing. Some campaigns hold onto oppo research until just the right moment. It can pay off, but there is a risk: Miss that window, and it may neve...
Scoundrel
On a 10-day road trip earlier this month, I listened to the audio version of American Scoundrel, the new biography of the infamous lawyer Roy Cohn, by Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark. It’s a terrific book and I highly recommend it.
Bird and Go...
The Waffle Wars
In the 1980s and 1990s, politics was fun. There was Reagan’s winning response to the “age issue” question in his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale, followed by Dukakis in a tank and an astonished President George H.W. Bush encountering a barc...
Rogers vs. El-Sayed
In a previous issue of this newsletter, the topic was Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Michigan, and the trove of videos and transcripts that, apparently, had escaped the attention of Rep. Haley Stevens’ oppo...
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Host and creator of the Oppo File podcast. Author of THE WATERGATE: INSIDE AMERICA'S MOST INFAMOUS ADDRESS (William Morrow).
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