Ferguson is currently a staff writer at
The Atlantic. Previously, he was senior editor of
The Weekly Standard (defunct since December 2018), and a columnist for
Bloomberg News based in
Washington, D.C. After the close of
The Weekly Standard,
David Brooks called Ferguson "the greatest political writer of my generation." Before joining the
Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at
Washingtonian magazine. He has been a columnist for
Fortune,
TV Guide, and
Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to
Time. He has also written for
The New Yorker,
New York,
The New Republic, the
Los Angeles Times,
The Washington Post, and other publications. In 1992, he was a
White House speechwriter for
President George H. W. Bush. A collection of his essays, ''Fools' Names, Fools' Faces
, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996, and Land of Lincoln'' was published released by Grove/Atlantic in 2007. His work has appeared in several anthologies. ==Bibliography==