Mark Mazzetti
@markmazzetti.bsky.social
Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story
August 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story
A personal and absolutely devastating account of the Texas floods. It is as beautifully written as it is painful to read
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A personal and absolutely devastating account of the Texas floods. It is as beautifully written as it is painful to read
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Sure this is going down really well at Langley
June 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Sure this is going down really well at Langley
NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel
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June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
NEW: Erik Prince has a contract to conduct lethal operations on behalf of Haiti’s government. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs
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May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
NEW: Erik Prince has a contract to conduct lethal operations on behalf of Haiti’s government. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
This Champions League match is a treat. Historic rivals Qatar and the UAE going at it
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This Champions League match is a treat. Historic rivals Qatar and the UAE going at it
Reposted by Mark Mazzetti
This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.
@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social wins the 2025 Hillman Book Prize for “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis,” @Newyorker.com
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis
Everyone who makes the migrant journey faces an impossible choice. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already b...
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April 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.
Reposted by Mark Mazzetti
Ronen Bergman and @markmazzetti.bsky.social of The New York Times Magazine win the 2025 Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel.”
The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
Beatings, murder threats, harassment, vandalism, and the torching of homes: Jewish extremists have been committing these crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank for decades, with impunity. The au...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ronen Bergman and @markmazzetti.bsky.social of The New York Times Magazine win the 2025 Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel.”
Honored that the story I wrote with Ronen Bergman is the winner of the 2025 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism given by @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. Here is press release and original story
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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Honored that the story I wrote with Ronen Bergman is the winner of the 2025 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism given by @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. Here is press release and original story
www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada
“Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory”
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Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory | CNN
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country would “never” yield to the United States as he declared victory in federal elections early Tuesday, following a campaign overshadowed by relentless...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada
Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK
April 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK
Do we tell them, or let them find out on their own?
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Do we tell them, or let them find out on their own?
“Memorializing the Holocaust” has been purged from the Naval Academy’s library. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” remain.
By @johnismay.bsky.social
By @johnismay.bsky.social
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“Memorializing the Holocaust” has been purged from the Naval Academy’s library. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” remain.
By @johnismay.bsky.social
By @johnismay.bsky.social
But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?
Morley: I think you’re confusing Roger Stone with Oliver Stone
Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize
Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?
“So many references to “1984” have flooded the political conversation that it feels as if nearly half the electorate joined the same book group”
Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.
Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.
We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now
He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
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March 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“So many references to “1984” have flooded the political conversation that it feels as if nearly half the electorate joined the same book group”
Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.
Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.
This story is at once completely bonkers and unbelievably scary
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This story is at once completely bonkers and unbelievably scary
“Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are running the same playbook to achieve strikingly similar goals: to neuter the judiciary, dismantle a system of oversight that puts a check on their authority and discredit national security professionals they see as arrayed against them.”
New w/Patrick Kingsley
New w/Patrick Kingsley
For Trump and Netanyahu, Similar Strategies With Similar Goals
The American and Israeli leaders have been mirroring each other as they go to war with their own governments
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March 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are running the same playbook to achieve strikingly similar goals: to neuter the judiciary, dismantle a system of oversight that puts a check on their authority and discredit national security professionals they see as arrayed against them.”
New w/Patrick Kingsley
New w/Patrick Kingsley
Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social
Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang
To invoke wartime deportation powers, President Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social
The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner
March 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner
When Johnny Cash sang at the White House in 1972, he played “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” as an f-you to Nixon.
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
When Johnny Cash sang at the White House in 1972, he played “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” as an f-you to Nixon.
“So here’s the point. If you really want to see what a deep state is, go look elsewhere. We don’t have one here at home. And we need to keep it that way.”
By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA
By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA
The U.S. Doesn’t Have a Deep State. It Never Should.
Theodore J. Singer had a career watching murky bureaucracies at work. His experience is a cautionary tale, he writes in a guest commentary.
www.barrons.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“So here’s the point. If you really want to see what a deep state is, go look elsewhere. We don’t have one here at home. And we need to keep it that way.”
By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA
By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA
Only in Washington would a new "younger and hipper" private club open and feature young and hip members like Howard Lutnick, Steve Mnuchin, and Kirsten Gillibrand
Inside Ned’s, the private club for a new generation of D.C. cool kids
The London-based franchise Ned’s Club aims for a modern take on Washington’s elite membership clubs.
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March 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Only in Washington would a new "younger and hipper" private club open and feature young and hip members like Howard Lutnick, Steve Mnuchin, and Kirsten Gillibrand
“What is Putin getting? He is getting more than he and other former K.G.B. officers ever dreamed of,” said @calderwalton.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“What is Putin getting? He is getting more than he and other former K.G.B. officers ever dreamed of,” said @calderwalton.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,”
The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.
The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.
Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,”
The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.
The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.
The More You Know…..
BREAKING: Debris over the Bahamas after SpaceX Starship falls apart during test flight
March 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The More You Know…..