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Thomas Byrne Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. He covered national politics for the Washington Post for 25 years and currently writes a weekly online column for the New York Times. He is the author of The Age of Austerity.

Studies: Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From Venus

Studies: Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From Venus

How research in political psychology explains the fierce clashes between Republican and Democrats in our polarized system.… More »

Is God Really Telling Rick Perry to Run for President?

Is God Really Telling Rick Perry to Run for President?

The Texas governor began his presidential bid citing divine intervention, but maybe he was misinterpreting the signs from above… More »

The Obama Coalition

The Obama Coalition

As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the minority electorate grows, and the ranks of unmarried voters swell, momentum is increasingly with the left and the Democratic Party.… More »

Issue January 2003

Blue Movie

The "morality gap" is becoming the key variable in American politics… More »

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Olympic Portraits, Part I: American Athletes

May 30, 2012

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