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.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while Ivan Duque, Colombia's president, center left, listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2020.

Colombian President Faces U.S. Counter-Narcotics Pressure Amid Refugee Crisis

His country is struggling to cope with the influx of more than 1.7 million ...

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...

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England.

The Danger in Prosecuting Julian Assange for Espionage

To understand why so many media and legal observers are voicing concern abo...

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...

Dejan Anastasijevic, Journalist and Witness to War Crimes, Dies at 57

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

Kennedy, 81, has cast key votes on abortion, free speech, race, gay rights and other issues.

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

The unpredictable Anthony Kennedy's retirement presages a more conservative...

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

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, left, and former CIA chief Michael Hayden at the Watergate Hotel in May

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

Two former intelligence chiefs chart the collapse of faith in government an...

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

National Intelligence Directo Dan Coats waits for the start of a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 23 2017

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

Dan Coats is not exactly Central Casting's version of a spymaster. Sitting ...

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...

President George W. Bush speaks to reporters during a meeting with economists in the Roosevelt Room of The White House as Vice President Dick Cheney looks on in Washington, on Jan. 30, 2004.

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"