Edward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic and its lead political correspondent. He has covered Democratic politics for fifteen years, beginning in his native New York City and carrying him through the Obama White House and then across twenty-nine states during the 2020 election cycle. His reporting has won the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence from the White House Correspondents Association and the Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, among other awards. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.