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J.J. Gould is deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com. He has previously worked as an editor with McKinsey & Company's New York-based Knowledge Group, where he focused on global public- and social-sector development, the economics of carbon-emissions reduction, and issues in the media industry; an editor at the Journal of Democracy, co-published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the National Endowment for Democracy; and a lecturer in history and politics at Yale University. He has written for The Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The Moscow Times, The European Journal of Political Theory, and other publications; he also co-wrote and co-produced the independent film The Chinese Room. Gould has a B.A. in history from McGill University in Montreal, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in in politics from Yale. Originally from Nova Scotia, he lives with his family outside Washington, D.C.

The Best Kim Jong Il Magazine Cover Ever

By J.J. Gould
Dec 19 2011, 11:21 AM ET Comment

The award goes to The Economist, from June 2000:

Kim Greetings Earthlings 615.jpg

Note the headline on this post from Economist.com's Banyan blog this morning. Applause.


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