Spring 2025 Fellow
Jonathan Martin is the politics bureau chief and senior political columnist at POLITICO. Before starting his column in 2022, Martin served as the national political correspondent for The New York Times. During his tenure, he covered elections in all 50 states and was the publication’s lead political reporter for nearly a decade. He joined The Times in 2013 after working as a senior political writer for POLITICO. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, National Review, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Earlier in his career, Martin was a political reporter for National Journal’s The Hotline.
Alongside fellow New York Times reporter Alexander Burns, Martin co-authored the book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, which explores the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Published in May 2022, the book spent three weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and provided readers with behind-the-scenes access to the extraordinary events of the 2020 election and its aftermath.
Martin also co-authored The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: The 34 Days That Decided the Election with Glenn Thrush, a book about the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
In addition to his writing, Martin has regularly provided on-air political analysis for ABC, NBC, and CBS.
He is a native of Arlington, Virginia, and a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College. He and his wife, Betsy, split their time between Washington, D.C. and New Orleans.
Study Group- Power Outage: Democrats and the Road to Recovery
This study group will focus on Democrats in the political wilderness: how they’re reckoning with being shut out of power in Washington, the internal debates shaping the party’s future, and who will emerge to lead them in their first election in over two decades without a Clinton, Obama, or Biden. We’ll discuss the 2024 election and its aftermath, the battle for DNC chair, the fast-approaching 2025 and 2026 elections and the positioning among those plotting to run for president in 2028.
Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. PT
January 28
February 4
March 11
March 25