Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait is a staff writer at The Atlantic writing about American politics and policy. He is the author of The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America (2007) and Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail (2017). Before joining The Atlantic, he spent 16 years at The New Republic, followed by 13 years at New York.

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  1. What Does Dan Bongino Believe?

    The new FBI deputy director has written that his own agency perpetrated “the greatest scandal in American political history.”

    Black and white photo of Dan Bongino speaking placed in front of a red background
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty.
  2. Paranoia Is Winning

    How Elon Musk’s conspiracy theories became official White House policy

    A large animated eye peeps through a crack in a torn image of the U.S. Capitol building
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.