The One-and-Done Doctrine
The president has railed against America’s “endless wars.” But he’s found a style of attack that he likes.
Ashley Parker
Ashley Parker is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, Parker—a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner—spent eight years at The Washington Post, where she covered all four years of Donald Trump’s first presidency, was White House bureau chief during President Joe Biden’s first two years, and covered the 2024 presidential campaign as the senior national political correspondent. Before that, she spent more than a decade at The New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress. She is also a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
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