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Matt Bai

Business Politics Sports

Thrown for a Curve in Rhode Island

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

Matt Bai New York Times Apr 2013 Permalink

Business

Did Barack Obama Save Ohio?

The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 30min Permalink

The Framing Wars

How “grand metaphors” drive politics.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Jul 2005 Permalink

Best Article Politics

Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal?

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Mar 2012 20min Permalink

Sex

Scott Ritter's Other War

How the former U.N. weapon’s inspector and “loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction” ended up embroiled in an Internet sex scandal involving underage girls.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 15min Permalink

Politics

How Chris Christie Did His Homework

On the evolution of New Jersey’s governor.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2011 Permalink