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Staff Directory

David Dayen, Executive Editor

Ellen J. Meany, Publisher

Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder & Co-Editor

Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large

Paul Starr, Co-Founder & Co-Editor

Gabrielle Gurley, Senior Editor

Ryan Cooper, Managing Editor

Susanna Beiser, Associate Editor

Tisya Mavuram, PR Specialist

Jandos Rothstein, Art Director 

Lee Harris, Staff Writer 

Jarod Facundo, Writing Fellow 

Luke Goldstein, Writing Fellow 

Ramenda Cyrus, John Lewis Writing Fellow 

Lauren Pfeil, Administrative Coordinator

Interns: Thomas Keegan, Elizabeth Meisenzahl, Emma Murphy, Elizabeth Rosenberg

Contributing Editors

Austin Ahlman, Marcia Angell, Gabriel Arana, David Bacon, Jamelle Bouie, Jonathan Cohn, Ann Crittenden, Garrett Epps, Jeff Faux, Francesca Fiorentini, Michelle Goldberg, Gershom Gorenberg, E.J. Graff, Bob Herbert, Arlie Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, John B. Judis, Randall Kennedy, Bob Moser, Karen Paget, Sarah Posner, Jedediah Purdy, Robert D. Putnam, Richard Rothstein, Adele M. Stan, Deborah A. Stone, Maureen Tkacik, Michael Tomasky, Paul Waldman, Sam Wang, William Julius Wilson, Matthew Yglesias, Julian Zelizer

Board of Directors

Amy Hanauer (chairperson); Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, David Dayen, Rebecca Dixon, Shanti Fry, Stanley B. Greenberg, Jacob S. Hacker, Jonathan Hart, Derrick Jackson, Randall Kennedy, Robert Kuttner, Ellen J. Meany, Javier Morillo, Miles Rapoport, Janet Shenk, Adele Simmons, Ganesh Sitaraman, Paul Starr, Michael Stern, Valerie Wilson

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Robert B. Reich

Founding Sponsors

Kenneth J. Arrow, Marian Wright Edelman, Albert O. Hirschman, Charles Lindblom, Fritz Stern, Frank Weil. In Memoriam: Daniel Bell (1919-2011), Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), Sidney Harman (1918-2011), Irving Harris (1910-2004), Harry Kahn (1917-1999), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), James Tobin (1918-2002)