Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York magazine and the managing editor of the Democratic Strategist, an online magazine.
Kilgore is a former senior fellow at the centrist Progressive Policy Institute, and a contributor to the Washington Monthly where he wrote the Political Animal blog. He has also written for the New Republic, and served as policy director for the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.
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