Garrett M. Graff?has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he’s a columnist for The Washington Post, where he writes on leadership, serves as the director of cyber initiatives at the Aspen Institute, and hosts the history podcast, Long Shadow, which received a 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award. The former editor of POLITICO Magazine and a longtime contributor to WIRED and CNN, he’s written for publications like Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs, and authored nine books—including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, the FBI history?The Threat Matrix,?Raven Rock?(about the government’s Cold War Doomsday plans), and the?New York Times?bestsellers?When the Sea Came Alive?(an oral history of D-Day) and Watergate: A New History, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.