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Barton Gellman
Staff Writer, The Atlantic; Author
Barton Gellman is an author and a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers politics, government, and national security. Prior to this, he was a legal, diplomatic, military, and Middle East correspondent for 21 years at The Washington Post. Gellman was previously a lecturer and visiting research fellow at Princeton and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman’s professional honors include three Pulitzer Prizes, two Emmy Awards, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Previously
![A Brief History of Lies: Government Deception from Watergate to Today](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/872ac393-1e01-4f10-b35f-93cca3bc8975/52190356500_d69ac9ebf3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=1695%2C112%2C4335%2C2433&w=400)
Fifty years ago, the nation was (gradually, then suddenly) rocked by revelations of dirty tricks in what became known as the Watergate scandal. But it wasn’t the first time th...
![The Future of the Democratic Party](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d4dd51ae-2f8b-4d1c-8a1f-d3e0cc338567/52181703895_00b4d48fb7_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C548%2C6000%2C3379&w=400)
The Democratic majority in Congress hangs by a thread, and with it the Biden administration’s ability to accomplish much of its agenda. What the past two years have shown us i...