Massimo Calabresi

Calabresi is TIME’s Washington bureau chief.

Recent Articles

Supreme Court Clashes in Immigration Case

There’s a reason Supreme Court watchers warn against jumping to conclusions based on oral arguments in high-profile cases. By the time those cases get through trials and appeals and make it all the way to...

By Massimo Calabresi

Why Obama Thinks the Senate's Inaction Is 'Dangerous' to Democracy

President Obama upped the stakes in his Supreme Court fight with Republicans during a conversation with students at the University of Chicago Law School yesterday, saying the GOP effort to block nominee Merrick Garland was...

By Massimo Calabresi

Inside the FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton's E-Mail

FBI director Jim Comey first investigated the Clintons 20 years ago

By Massimo Calabresi

The FBI Chief on the Trail of Hillary’s Emails

What James Comey’s investigation reveals could change the course of the election

By Massimo Calabresi

How to Tell Who Won the Fight Between Apple and the FBI

The battle moves to Brooklyn

By Massimo Calabresi

Why Karadzic’s Conviction May Matter More in the Future

The Hague's efforts to prosecute Karadzic could set the high water mark for justice

By Massimo Calabresi

Obama Tries to Defuse Partisan Politics with Court Pick

The President's nomination of Merrick Garland, a moderate and well-respected judge, for the Supreme Court shows Obama is hoping for a political truce. But that doesn't makes a partisan war over the nomination any less likely

By Massimo Calabresi

Behind the U.S. Counterstrike in Apple iPhone Battle

Fierce rhetoric in legal filings

By Massimo Calabresi

What Bin Laden's Will and Other al-Qaeda Papers Show

The U.S. intelligence community released today 113 documents captured during the May 2, 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The documents provide a window into the operations of al Qaeda during...

By Massimo Calabresi

How Scalia's Death Will Affect Pending Cases

The untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia rightly will be met with sadness and many learned assessments of the long-term impact this historic figure had on the Court, the American judiciary and the country.In the...

By Massimo Calabresi

The Politics and the Law

To some Republicans, it looked like the smoking gun they’d been imagining for years. When the State Department released another batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails in early January, her GOP opponents said they had found...

By Massimo Calabresi

Clinton's Email Troubles Come With Bad Political Timing

The investigation will be slow, deliberate and torturous for the presidential candidate

By Massimo Calabresi

Homeland Security, ISIS and the Fight Against Fear

Jeh Johnson sees the war on terror come home

By Massimo Calabresi

The TSA and the Price of Security

TSA's emergency powers are doing more harm than good

By Massimo Calabresi

Obama FDA Nominee Will Oversee Former Clients

Updated 11/21/15 6:45 p.m.President Obama’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration temporarily recused himself from overseeing several large pharmaceutical companies due to potential conflict of interests in order to comply with federal ethics...

By Massimo Calabresi

Here's What the Syrian Refugees Bill Would Do

The House is expected to vote Thursday on legislation its authors say would tighten oversight of a federal program for Syrian and Iraqi refugees, an issue that has seized the national political stage in the...

By Alex Altman and Massimo Calabresi

A Wave of the World’s Displaced Crashes on Europe’s Shores

Migrants arrive from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia

By Massimo Calabresi

Obama Poised for Win on Iran Deal

A major foreign policy victory for President Obama

By Massimo Calabresi

The High Stakes of Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

Predicting the likely fallout

By Massimo Calabresi

Hillary's Lawyer Ready for War

Longtime Hillary Clinton ally and lawyer David Kendall is a legal mastermind now entering a highly political arena

By Massimo Calabresi
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