Don’t Blow This, Baseball
The thrilling World Series shows that baseball is truly back—just in time for its next crisis.
Jonathan Lemire
Jonathan Lemire is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He also serves as co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe. He has covered the White House since 2016 in his roles as White House bureau chief at Politico and, prior to that, as a White House correspondent for the Associated Press. He also covered national and local politics for the AP and the New York Daily News. He is the author of the book The Big Lie, which was an instant New York Times best seller upon its 2022 release.
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