Ashley Parker

At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Off-Boarding of Elon Musk. @michaelscherer.bsky.social and I take a look at Musk’s Cybertruck and chainsaw arrival in Washington, his thwarted ambitions, and his quiet exit—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fantastic @washingtonpost.com wrap-up of Trump's foreign trip, w tons of insight and color from @mbirnbaum.bsky.social + Matt Viser: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.” My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

My two kids, epitomized: 6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.” 2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”

Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool. Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...