Matt Bai is a national correspondent for Newsweek magazine. His political work includes coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign.
Mr. Bai has also written extensively about the gun-control debate, the firearms industry and the Columbine High School shootings. In writing stories from every part of the country, he has focused on America's urban-rural divide and in maverick politicians like Jesse Ventura and John McCain. Before coming to Newsweek, Mr. Bai was a metro reporter for the Boston Globe.
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Matt Bai article in the New York Times Magazine on John Podesta's new Center for American Progress think tank.
Emulating those conservative institutions, he said, a message-oriented war room will send out a daily briefing to refute the positions and arguments of the right. An aggressive media department will book liberal thinkers on cable TV.
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Notion Building
Written By: Matt Bai
Publication Date: October 12, 2003
Publisher: New York Times Magazine
The ideology of Republican revolution was cooked up decades ago in right-wing think tanks. By copying that model, John Podesta aims to find an idea big enough to save the Democratic Party
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Bai spent several months in 1998 reporting and writing Newsweek’s cover story on septuagenarian astronaut John Glenn, titled “Back Into Space.” Earlier that year, he spent a month in Iraq covering the standoff with the United States.