Massimo Calabresi

Calabresi is TIME’s Washington bureau chief.

Recent Articles

How We Talk About the Holocaust Now

J.D. Vance's visit to Dachau and support for Germany's AfD party shows the way politicians talk about the Nazi genocide is changing

By Massimo Calabresi/Dachau

Donald Trump's Disruption Is Back

After inauguration day, it is on Trump and America to ensure that the oath to defend the U.S. Constitution is kept.

By Massimo Calabresi

The World According to Biden

During his 40 months in office, events have tested Biden’s vision of American world leadership

By Massimo Calabresi / Washington

Inside the White House Program to Share America’s Secrets

Mass surveillance and social media are changing the spy game.

By Massimo Calabresi

Trump Tells Duque to Step Up Counter-Drug Efforts

His country is struggling to cope with the influx of more than 1.7 million refugees who have fled the political and economic crisis in neighboring Venezuela, but Colombian President Iván Duque was given a new...

By W.J. Hennigan , Vera Bergengruen , Brian Bennett and Massimo Calabresi

The Public Servants Are TIME's 2019 Guardians of the Year

There are 363,000 federal workers in the greater Washington, D.C., area. In the first week of September, history turned in the office of one of them. The intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on President...

By Massimo Calabresi , Vera Bergengruen and Simon Shuster

The Danger in Prosecuting Assange

To understand why so many media and legal observers are voicing concern about the Julian Assange indictment, it helps to perform the following mental exercise.If you were to click on this link to the WikiLeaks...

By Massimo Calabresi and W.J. Hennigan

Serbian Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic Dies at 57

TIME’s former Belgrade correspondent was a mentor to a generation

By Massimo Calabresi

With Justice Kennedy Gone, It's Trump's Court Now

The unpredictable Anthony Kennedy's retirement presages a more conservative era on the Supreme Court

By Massimo Calabresi

Former Intelligence Chiefs Explain How President Trump Sows Distrust to His Advantage

Two former intelligence chiefs chart the collapse of faith in government and warn of the dangers of Trumpism

By Massimo Calabresi

Mild-Mannered Spy Chief Dan Coats Gives Trump the Facts, Gently

Dan Coats is not exactly Central Casting’s version of a spymaster. Sitting down for an interview in his spacious office in suburban Virginia, the Director of National Intelligence is cheerful and earnest. His manner is...

By Massimo Calabresi

George W. Bush Never Pardoned Scooter Libby and It Broke His Relationship With Dick Cheney

From the 2009 TIME cover story, "The Final Days of Bush and Cheney"

By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf

How Rep. Adam Schiff Became a Central Character in the Trump-Russia Fight

The California Democrat is on the front lines of the Trump-Russia fight

By Massimo Calabresi

Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page’s contacts with the Russian government...

By Massimo Calabresi and Alana Abramson

How Donald Trump Is Sowing Distrust in American Justice

President Trump delivered a fairly traditional mix of barbs and bromides during his 80-minute State of the Union address on Jan. 30, but one seemingly anodyne claim was actually pretty audacious. “For the last year,”...

By Massimo Calabresi

Robert Mueller

A prosecutor known for rigor and rectitude goes after the president's men

By Massimo Calabresi

How Trump's Cabinet Is Dismantling Government as We Know It

While the President tweets and fulminates, his Cabinet is rewriting the rules of government

By Massimo Calabresi

Exclusive: Read the Undisclosed Plan to Counter Election Day Hacking

Including sending armed law enforcement agents to polling places

By Massimo Calabresi

Inside the Secret Plan to Stop Vladimir Putin’s U.S. Election Plot

The White House was prepared to call out the military to guard the vote from a Russian hack

By Massimo Calabresi

Election Hacking in 2016 Was Worse Than Believed

A new line of inquiry into Russian attempts to interfere with the election

By Massimo Calabresi
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