Matt Bai

Montag, 09. September 1968

Matt Bai (/ˈbaɪ/) (born September 9, 1968) is an American journalist, author and screenwriter. He is a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. Between 2014 and 2019 he was the national political columnist for Yahoo! News. On 25 July 2019, via Twitter, Bai announced he was leaving Yahoo! News to "focus on screenwriting". For more than a decade prior to that, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential campaigns, as well as a columnist for the Times. His cover stories in the magazine include the 2008 cover essay "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?” and a 2004 profile of John Kerry titled "Kerry’s Undeclared War". His work was honored in two editions of The Best American Political Writing. Bai is a graduate of the Coll