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Welcome to The Swamp, an indispensable guide to what’s really happening in D.C. We're taking you inside the White House, the chambers of Congress, and the restaurants, clubs, and bars where the real deals are done. Subscribe!
Independent. Irreverent. Intelligent. The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting, fact-informed analysis, and sharp opinion in the arena of politics, pop culture, and power.
David Gardner is the Daily Beast's D.C. Bureau Chief. An author of five books, he has worked as an editor at Newsweek and for the Daily Mail as a crime writer and senior foreign correspondent, traveling the world on assignment for the newspaper.
Laura Esposito covers the rising stars of MAGA and the manosphere for The Swamp. Her reporting takes you inside the parties and power plays shaping the right’s next generation. Invite her to your parties: [email protected]
Farrah Tomazin is the Daily Beast's Political Correspondent, covering the White House, Congress & elections. She is a former investigative reporter, political editor and North America Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald & The Melbourne Age.
Sarah Ewall-Wice is a Political Reporter for The Daily Beast. Previously a reporter at the Daily Mail, she covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and was on the road with the Kamala Harris campaign. She also worked at CBS News.
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