I'm CQ Roll Call's national security editor and manage a team of reporters covering the House and Senate Armed Services committees and the Pentagon. We produce a morning newsletter as well as daily news and enterprise work for CQ.com, CQ Magazine and Roll Call.

Previously, I served as the editor of CQ Magazine, where I oversaw the assignment and editing of stories on Congress, politics, and Washington writ large. I wrote a regular column and, over the years, many of the magazine's cover stories.

From 2015 till 2021, I ran CQ Roll Call's Capitol Insiders Survey, a poll of congressional staffers. I was also CQ's liaison to the polling firm YouGov, helping to produce its weekly poll for the Economist, when the Economist was CQ's owner.

From 2017 to 2021, I hosted a string of CQ Roll Call podcasts: CQ on Congress, the CQ Coronavirus Special Report and CQ Future, interviewing guests on a range of topics.

In 2018, I oversaw production of CQ's New Member Guide, assigning and editing 150 profiles of congressional candidates who had a shot to win House or Senate seats.

For more than nine years, ending in 2014, I was the principal author of the front-of-the-book Vantage Point section of CQ Magazine. For much of 2015, I covered technology policy for CQ.com and CQ Magazine before moving to a full-time feature writing position. I became the magazine's deputy editor in January 2016 and editor in April 2020. I became national security editor in September 2021.

I was also a senior writer for three editions of Politics in America, writing profiles of representatives and senators for CQ's former guide to Congress. In 2008, I covered the presidential campaign for the fact-checking website PolitiFact when it was a joint project of CQ and the St. Petersburg Times. That same year, I covered interest groups at the Democratic National Convention in Denver for CQPolitics.com and CQ Today, a daily newsletter.

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I previously spent two years as a staff correspondent with Government Executive magazine, where I covered government human resources issues and civil service reform. Prior to that, I was a reporter for National Journal for six years. In that role, I covered lobbying and developed the magazine's semi-annual top-10 survey of Washington lobbying firms.

In 1997, I graduated from Harvard College where I earned a degree in American History and Literature. I'm from Boston originally.

 

When I'm not reporting or writing, I spend time with my two children, Madelyn and Luke, and wife Kate. I enjoy running, as well as biking, kayaking, hiking and mountain climbing, and reading history. I won the masters division at the 2017 West Virginia state marathon championship in 3:08:19 and have qualified for the Boston Marathon eight times. I set a personal best of 2:58:06 at the 2019  Rehoboth Seashore Marathon. I have climbed five 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado, including the highest in the Rockies, Mt. Elbert; Oregon's third highest mountain, South Sister; and Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast. I'm also an Eagle Scout.

 

My full resume is available on LinkedIn here.

 

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