Mark Landler
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Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and writes a weekly foreign affairs column, Listening Post. Prior to moving to the White House in March 2011, he was the newspaper’s diplomatic correspondent. He has reported for The Times from 67 countries on six continents, from Afghanistan to Yemen.
Before moving to Washington in 2008, Mark was a foreign correspondent for 10 years, serving as European economic correspondent in Frankfurt, from 2002 to 2008, and as Hong Kong bureau chief, from 1998 to 2002. He won an Overseas Press Club award in 2007.
Mark began his career at The Times in 1987 as a copy boy. From 1990 to 1995, he was a reporter and editor at Business Week magazine, rejoining The Times in 1995. He is a 1987 graduate of Georgetown University, and was a Reuter Fellow at Oxford University in 1997.
Selected Columns
Listening Post
From ‘Least Diplomatic Diplomat,’ Salty Peek at Trans-Atlantic Strains
A state visit by the French president will bring talk of common values, but a leaked recording of Victoria J. Nuland, an American diplomat, offers a more accurate snapshot of the complicated relationship.
February 11, 2014 worldNewsListening Post
White House, in Gates’s Telling, Restrained Clinton
In former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s account, Hillary Rodham Clinton fares better than the president or vice president.
January 11, 2014 usNewsListening Post
Chinese Claim Forces Obama to Flesh Out His Asia Strategy
The Chinese declaration of an “air defense identification zone” led the United States to jump off the fence in a territorial dispute between China and Japan that has mushroomed into a dangerous standoff.
November 28, 2013 worldNewsListening Post
Kerry Takes Personal Approach to Mideast Peace
Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, who mostly left managing the peace process to others, Secretary of State John Kerry seems to enjoy grinding it out.
November 8, 2013 worldNewsListening Post
One Casualty of Eavesdropping on Merkel: A Warm Rapport
For President Obama, the collateral damage the National Security Agency surveillance has inflicted on his relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is, perhaps, a more painful cost of the episode.
November 1, 2013 worldNewsListening Post
Photos Tell a Tale of Anguished Deliberations
In the images of tense meetings in Washington, the faces and body language of the president’s advisers offer a guide to their conflicting opinions on Syria.
September 7, 2013 worldNewsArticles
Obama Denies U.S. Involvement in Coup Attempt in Turkey
Rumors that America was behind the failed military action threatened the safety of U.S. citizens in Turkey, Mr. Obama said, and could damage the nations’ ties.
July 23, 2016, Saturday
Donald Trump Basks in Convention ‘Love’ (but Has None for Ted Cruz)
After bragging that he had unified Republicans in one of the most “love-filled” conventions in history, the nominee went on an extended diatribe against his primary rival.
July 23, 2016, Saturday
Released Emails Suggest the D.N.C. Derided the Sanders Campaign
Some of the nearly 20,000 messages, made public through WikiLeaks, show officials at the Democratic National Committee thought little of Mr. Sanders’ chances of becoming president.
July 23, 2016, Saturday
Obama Rejects Donald Trump’s Vision of America
The president said that the nation was not on the verge of collapse and that violent crime and unauthorized immigration were at the lowest levels in decades.
July 23, 2016, Saturday
For Trump, an America That Is Not a Nation of Nations
In his convention speech on Thursday, the presidential candidate took a negative tone on immigrants, avoiding even a boilerplate mention of their positive contributions.
July 23, 2016, Saturday
Obama’s Support of Erdogan Is a Stark Reminder of Turkey’s Value to U.S.
The Turkish leader may be a bitter disappointment to Mr. Obama, but he is still better than other options in the chaotic landscape of the Middle East.
July 21, 2016, Thursday
In Aftermath of Baton Rouge Shooting, Obama Directs Message to His Successor
The president’s address was a shift in tone from previous talks intended to console the nation.
July 19, 2016, Tuesday
Obama Condemns Baton Rouge Shooting and Calls, Again, for Unity
“Attacks on police are an attack on all of us,” the president said, the fifth time in nine days that he had spoken publicly about shootings involving the police.
July 18, 2016, Monday
Obama Tells Mourning Dallas, ‘We Are Not as Divided as We Seem’
President Obama urged Americans not to give in to despair Tuesday at a memorial for five police officers gunned down by a black Army veteran.
July 13, 2016, Wednesday
U.S. Will Deploy 560 More Troops to Iraq to Help Retake Mosul From ISIS
The announcement, made by Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, is the latest escalation of America’s combat role in Iraq.
