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Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle - Megan McArdle is a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and The Economist. More

Megan was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and yes, she does enjoy her lattes, as well as the occasional extra-dry skim-milk cappuccino. Her checkered work history includes three start-ups, four years as a technology project manager for a boutique consulting firm, a summer as an associate at an investment bank, and a year spent as sort of an executive copy girl for one of the disaster-recovery firms at Ground Zero … all before the age of 30.

While working at Ground Zero, Megan started Live From the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. From there it was but a few steps down the slippery slope to freelance journalism. She has worked in various capacities for The Economist, where she wrote about economics and oversaw the founding of Free Exchange, the magazine's economics blog. She has also maintained her own blog, Asymmetrical Information, which moved to The Atlantic, along with its owner, in August 2007.

Megan holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. After a lifetime as a New Yorker, she now resides in northwest Washington, D.C., where she is still trying to figure out what one does with an apartment larger than 400 square feet.
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John Edwards Back in the Spotlight

By Megan McArdle

Aug 13 2009, 12:02 PM ET Comment

Just as the Atlantic paints a movingly sympathetic portrait of Elizabeth Edwards, and a scathing indictment of Rielle Hunter, news outlets are reporting there may be evidence that yes, Hunter's daughter was fathered by John Edwards.

I have to say, I refused to follow the scandal--to the extent that I didn't even know Rielle Hunter's name until I read the Flanagan piece.  But I finished both pieces really thoroughly disgusted by John Edwards.  Neither piece pays much attention to him--a lapse I find fairly inexplicable in Flanagan's case.  Whatever Hunter's sins, John Edwards was the one in charge of taking care of Elizabeth Edwards.  She clearly deserved much better than she got.


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