Massimo Calabresi

Massimo Calabresi joined the Washington bureau of TIME in 1999 and has covered the CIA, State, Justice, Treasury, Congress and the White House. He covered the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as TIME's Central Europe bureau chief from 1995 to 1999 and the collapse of the Soviet Union as a freelancer in Moscow in 1991.

Recent Articles

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 March 3, 2020

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...

By Massimo Calabresi and W.J. Hennigan May 24, 2019

Serbian Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic Dies at 57

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

By Massimo Calabresi April 25, 2019

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 June 28, 2018

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 May 31, 2018

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 May 22, 2018

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 April 13, 2018

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 March 8, 2018

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 February 3, 2018

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 February 1, 2018
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