Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent
Opinion Blogger

Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant -- what you might call “opinionated reporting” from the left. He joined the Post in early 2009, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. He lives in Maryland with his wife, son and daughter.

Latest by Greg Sargent

The Morning Plum: The Oklahoma tornado is a horrible tragedy. Bring the politics.

Why shouldn't natural disasters and other major events prompt big political arguments?

Happy Hour Roundup

Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.

Dems betting heavily on GOP scandal overreach in 2014

Democratic strategists are gambling that Republicans will reveal that they are more interested in scandal-mongering about the President than in solving people's problems.

Leak investigations are indeed having a chilling effect

One top investigative reporter tells me that the Obama administration's aggressive targeting of leakers has made sources less reluctant to talk to him.