Molly Ball

Molly Ball is TIME's National Political Correspondent. Previously, she covered U.S. politics for The Atlantic and Politico, and worked for newspapers in Nevada and Cambodia. She is the author of Pelosi, a bestselling biography of the first woman Speaker of the House.

Recent Articles

Sen. Sherrod Brown Has Some Thoughts About 'Succession'

The chairman of the Senate banking committee believes the show is pretty realistic

By Molly Ball January 14, 2022

Harry Reid Paved the Way for Dems to Kill the Filibuster

“There will come a time when we will all be gone,” Harry Reid wrote in 2008, “and the institutions that we now serve will be run by men and women not yet living, and those...

By Molly Ball January 12, 2022

Harry Reid, Understated Political Strategist, Dies

The former Senate Majority Leader knew his greatest strength was not soaring rhetoric but the inside game

By Molly Ball December 28, 2021

Inside Mystic Valley and the Debate Over America's Classroom

Eric Henry couldn’t believe what the 5th-graders at his triplets’ school were being assigned to read. On Jan. 31, the electrical engineer and Navy veteran fired off an email to a group of fellow parents...

By Molly Ball/Malden, Mass. November 22, 2021

How Big Business Dumped Trump

The CEOs started calling before President Trump had even finished speaking. What America’s titans of industry were hearing from the Commander in Chief was sending them into a panic. It was Nov. 5, 2020, two...

By Molly Ball November 1, 2021

How Chuck Schumer Became Key to the Biden Agenda

How the Senate's Great Kibitzer became the key to the Biden agenda

By Molly Ball September 2, 2021

What Mike Fanone Can't Forget

D.C. police officer Michael Fanone defended American democracy on January 6. Now, he's defending the history of that day

By Molly Ball August 5, 2021

Author J.D. Vance Turns Into Pro-Trump Candidate

“I’m not just a flip-flopper, I’m a flip-flop-flipper on Trump,” J.D. Vance says with a laugh, slicing into a half-stack of breakfast pancakes. The Hillbilly Elegy author and newly minted Republican Senate candidate is sitting...

By Molly Ball/Cincinnati July 7, 2021

America's Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute To Confront Its Past—And Future

It was a cold morning last December when they finally took Stonewall Jackson down. No ceremony was held, no protesters gathered; snowflakes swirled in the air. A crane silently hoisted the enormous bronze Confederate general...

By Molly Ball/Lexington, Va. May 27, 2021

Politics, Race, Religion: What Really Divides Americans?

America is divided—but by what? Race, religion, political party, education level: all are sources of significant social disunity these days, as people increasingly have trouble understanding or relating to those outside their identity groups. But...

By Chris Wilson May 20, 2021
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