Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall

Tom Edsall joined the full-time faculty here after a twenty-five year career at The Washington Post. During that time, he covered all aspects of national politics, including presidential elections, the House and Senate, lobbying, tax policy, demographic trends, social welfare, the politics of race and ethnicity, organized labor, among other topics. He is now a correspondent for The New Republic and The National Journal, and has reported for The Baltimore Sun, The Providence Journal, and contributes TV and radio commentary regularly for CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, FOX, and NPR.

Edsall is the author of four books: Building Red America (2006); Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (2005); Power and Money: Writing About Politics (1988); and The New Politics of Inequality (1984). He has written extensively for magazines, with articles appearing in American Prospect, The Atlantic Monthly, Civilization, Dissent, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and Washington Monthly. Awards include the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association, the Bill Pryor Award of the Newspaper Guild, a yearlong fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and five Media Fellowships at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Edsall received a B.A. from Boston University.