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John Heilemann
May 5, 2024

Twenty-nine years ago this month, with the country reeling from the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 presidential election looming on the horizon, I quietly began engineering a career move that was, to me, fantastically enticing, but on its face, utterly preposterous. After five fabulous years working for The Economist, first in London and then in Washington, I would cover the forthcoming campaign for two magazines simultaneously: Wired and The New Yorker.