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Martin Peretz
Editor-in-Chief
Marty Peretz has been editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974. Simultaneously he has kept up his teaching at Harvard University, where he has been a part-time lecturer in Social Studies since joining TNR.
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Leon Wieseltier
Literary Editor
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1952. After three years as a graduate student in Jewish history at Harvard University, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1979 to 1982. He also attended Columbia University and Oxford University.
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Peter Beinart
Editor-at-Large
Peter Beinart is editor-at-large at The New Republic. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Time contributor and a monthly columnist for The Washington Post.
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Jonathan Chait
Senior Editor
Jonathan Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic, writes about the policy and politics of taxes, health care reform, the federal budget, and many other issues. He has been with the magazine since 1995, previously as a staff writer and reporter researcher.
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Jonathan Cohn
Senior Editor
Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has been since 1997 and served for two years as the executive editor. He writes mainly about domestic politics and policy, with a particular focus on issues related to health care and social welfare.
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Michelle Cottle
Senior Editor
Michelle Cottle has been a senior editor at The New Republic since February 1999. She is a 1992 magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English and a minor in European Studies.
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Michael Crowley
Senior Editor
Michael Crowley is senior editor at The New Republic. He joined TNR in 2000 after working for The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, Slate, and other publications.
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Ruth Franklin
Senior Editor
Ruth Franklin started at The New Republic as assistant managing editor in July 1999, became associate literary editor in February 2001, and a senior editor in October 2003. A Baltimore native, she received a B.A. in English from Columbia University in 1995 and an M.A. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 1998.
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John B. Judis
Senior Editor
John B. Judis, a senior editor at The New Republic, has been a contributor since 1982. He received his B.A. in 1963 and his M.A. in 1965 from the University of California at Berkeley. An active member of SDS and the left of the Sixties, he taught philosophy at Berkeley and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Noam Scheiber
Senior Editor
Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a B.S. in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor.
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Lee Siegel
Senior Editor
Lee Siegel is a senior editor at The New Republic.
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Jason Zengerle
Senior Editor
Jason Zengerle is a senior editor at The New Republic. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1996 and joined the magazine in 1997. His work has also appeared in GQ, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. He lives with his wife and son in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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Eve Fairbanks
Associate Editor
Eve Fairbanks is The New Republic's congressional correspondent. A graduate of Yale, she joined The New Republic in 2005. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Details, and on NPR.
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Christopher Orr
Online Film Critic
Christopher Orr is The New Republic's online film critic. He's also written on film for L.A. Weekly, Salon, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Sun. He came to TNR as Executive Editor in 2000, and has worked as an editor at The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News and World Report, and Mother Jones.
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Jeffrey Rosen
Legal Affairs
Jeffrey Rosen has been legal affairs editor of The New Republic since 1992. He is also a Professor of Law at George Washington University. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America.
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Sacha Zimmerman
Special Online Projects Manager
Special Online Projects Manager Sacha Zimmerman has worked or written for The New Republic since 2001. She currently writes the "Inner Tube" column for TNR Online and is a Contributing Editor at Reader's Digest. Formerly, Sacha was the assistant managing editor at TNR, and she penned the "Pulps" column for TNR Online.
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Joshua Kurlantzick
Special Correspondent
Special Correspondent Joshua Kurlantzick joined The New Republic as foreign editor in October 2002. He is also a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s China Program, where he focuses on China and Asia, and a contributing writer for Mother Jones. Additionally, Kurlantzick is currently a fellow at the USC School of Public Diplomacy and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Kurlantzick's articles also have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, and The Atlantic Monthly, among others.
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