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Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker, where he frequently writes the Comment, in The Talk of the Town.

Hertzberg originally joined The New Yorker as a Talk of the Town reporter in 1969, after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After the 1976 Presidential election, he became a White House speechwriter under President Jimmy Carter. From 1981 until 1991, he was associated with The New Republic, serving two terms as its editor. During his second stint, between 1988 and 1991, The New Republic won three National Magazine Awards, including back-to-back awards for General Excellence. In 1992, he returned to The New Yorker. In 2006, his Comment essays won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary.

Hertzberg has also been a fellow of two institutes at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government: the Institute of Politics and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. He is the author of “Politics: Observations & Arguments” (2004), “ˇObamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era” (2009), and “One Million” (2009).

Hertzberg lives in New York City.

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November 1, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

Gettin’ down with “Double Down”

If you haven’t yet read the spoilers, here’s today’s Fun Fact Quiz, based on the soon-to-be-published Halperin-Heilemann blockbuster.
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November 1, 2013
Blog: Comment

Obama’s Game of Telephone

In the shoes (or under the hats, felt or tinfoil) of the N.S.A., I would have eagerly tapped Chancellor Merkel’s cell phone, along with the electronic communications of every other head of government, friendly and unfriendly alike, because … because I could.
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October 24, 2013
Blog: Comment

Electoral Nirvana, for Krist’s Sake

What a lot of Nirvana fans may not know is that Krist Novoselic, the band's bassist, has another passion: electoral reform.
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October 17, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

The Book on Booker

What kind of a senator will Cory Booker be? Famous, visible, and, perhaps, somewhat troublesome.
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October 16, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

Impeach Obama! (Continued)

As the default clock ticked down, more support for the view that President Obama had a duty to pay America’s debts.
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Oct 21, 2013
Comment

Impeach Obama!

In the current imbroglio, the Republicans’ ransom demands have kept changing. At first, it was the Aordable Care Act: in exchange for a few weeks of fiscal peace, repeal it; defund it; delay it; dismember it. Then the price ballooned with some two dozen additional conservative fever dreams: plutocrat-friendly tax cuts, Medicare means-testing, a green light for environmental depredations, financial regulatory rollback, even the end of Internet neutrality. Then it was immediate “entitlement reform” (meaning cuts in social insurance) and “tax reform” (meaning lower rates for corporations and the rich). “We have to get something out of this,” one bewildered backbencher finally bleated, “and I don’t know what that even is.”
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October 3, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

Gamesmanship as Statesmanship?

Almost everyone seems to agree that President Obama and the Democrats are ahead in the battle for public opinion at the moment.
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October 1, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

Mr. Obama Stays in Washington

Healthcare.gov, a portal for the Web sites of Obamacare’s new health-insurance marketplaces, went live Tuesday morning. By Tuesday afternoon, the Times was reporting that “heavy volume” and “high traffic,” along with the expected technical glitches, were overwhelming the sites all over the country.
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September 26, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

What the Germans Did, and How

Why a huge election victory for conservatives is likely to move Germany slightly to the left.
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September 20, 2013
Blog: Hendrik Hertzberg

Sympathy for the Dangerman

The moment prompted an unexpected thought as well: that Weiner’s self-immolation represents a real loss to New York.
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