Eric Lichtblau is a Washington journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times for nearly 15 years until 2017, and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before that. He has also written for the New Yorker, TIME, USA Today, and other publications. He is the author of three nonfiction books — “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice,” “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men,” and “Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis.” He is currently working on a book about the sharp rise in hate crimes by far-right extremists.