The Country’s First Climate Change Casualties?
Pacific Standard September/October issue Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it—and why they’ve risked […]
Job update
Hello, dear readers! I’m so excited to share that I’ve joined The Atlantic as a staff writer, covering Congress and national politics. What a dream, right? I’m so excited to get […]
No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa
Daily Beast 11/13/2017 The ‘Apprentice’ star has a top salary and a high-ranking job. But when we spent time with her, it was her wedding she was planning. You can […]
Ryan Zinke, Trump’s Cowboy Enforcer, Is Ready for His Closeup
GQ 7/31/2017 In my first story for GQ magazine, I profiled Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Do give it a read! Photographs by Grant Hindsley.
A letter to Tom
Dear Tom, Here is a line I wrote down a few weeks ago: “You were like a big city to me.” I was at the Ritz in London when I […]
Washingtonian Writings
Hello there, dear readers. Apologies for not posting in some time. I’ll post a longer update when I’m lucid — it’s 1:27 a.m. and I’m knee-deep in my second viewing […]
A quick Monday note
I keep a note on my iPhone of passages I like. Passages from writers such as Junot Diaz, Mary McCarthy, John Green, Ann Beattie. Quite a few people. (An aside: […]
On Tennessee, And My Father
When I miss you most I think about Tennessee. The small brick house in Murfreesboro, the one with the beige carpet and pink quilts and upstairs room the size and […]
National Review Writings
You can find the entirety of my National Review writings here, a collection of some ninety pieces on Congress and the 2016 campaigns — House, Senate and presidential. Some of […]
In Praise of Zadie Smith
Town & Country UK 10/6/2015 October is my favourite month for reading. Grey mornings framed by orange leaves pair well with good fiction, and this season I find myself more […]
Elaina Plott 