Michael Crowley (journalist)

Michael Crowley is senior foreign affairs correspondent for POLITICO.

Crowley is a 1994 graduate of Yale University

From 2010 to 2014, Crowley was a writer, editor and senior foreign affairs correspondent for Time. From 2000 to 2010 he was a writer for The New Republic where he covered domestic politics and foreign policy. He was also a reporter at the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix. His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, New York and Slate. He often appears on PBS, NPR and MSNBC. Crowley has reported from more than a dozen countries, including Iraq, China, Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Lebanon, Germany and Ukraine.

Michael Crowley wrote an article focused on Enrique Peña Nieto the President of Mexico (2012-2018), the article titled Saving Mexico was featured as the cover article in the February 2014, issue of the TIME magazine. Upon release the article a and was met with controversy . as the cover article's title inside the magazine. The controversial article, praised the president and his cabinet for reforms like opening oil fields for foreign investment for the first time in 75 years (a reform for which mexican citizens have shown mixed feelings towards), ending the Mexican drug wars (which wasn't completely accurate), and even going as far as saying "the opposition party blocked major reforms that were necessary", that "American leaders could learn a thing or two from their resurgent southern neighbor" and saying Mexicans citizens "alarms were replaced with applause". The last part proved not true, when the magazine cover featuring a piciture of Peña Nieto and the legend Saving Mexico immediately spawned heavy amounts of backlash on social media, becoming a meme spawning multiple parody covers ranging from changing the legend to mock words like Selling Mexico, Slaving Mexico, Starving Mexico, Who is saving Mexico from this ass-hole? to editing Peña Nieto into clown make-up, dressed as the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, the Pope, to one featuring an old lady holding a gun with the legend Saving Mexico... pero de Peña Nieto (but from Peña Nieto). Multiple articles criticizing the article, some websites even asked the Time magazine, if Peña Nieto paid for the cover story. Even leading Michael Crowley, to write on twitter "Remarkable how many critics of Mexico's president seem to believe I must have literally taken a bribe to write a positive story about him"

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