Matt Bai writes on national politics for the New York Times Magazine, where he is currently covering the 2008 presidential campaign. His book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, will be published by the Penguin Press in August 2007.

Bai’s coverage of the 2004 campaign included cover stories on the Republican machine in Ohio and the future of Democratic politics, as well as a cover profile of John Kerry. His work was honored in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best American Political Writing. Before joining the Times Magazine in 2002, Bai, 38, spent five years as a national correspondent for Newsweek. In 2001, he was a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, where he led a seminar on the next generation of political journalism. He began his career as a city desk reporter for the Boston Globe, and his international experience includes coverage from Iraq and Liberia.

Bai is a graduate of Tufts and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, where the faculty awarded him the prestigious Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. A native of Trumbull, Connecticut, he now lives with his wife and son in Washington.

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