Michael Grunwald is a senior writer for Politico magazine and the author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise and The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. He previously served as correspondent for both Time magazine and the Washington Post.
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