Jonathan Chait

political columnist for New York Magazine

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Jonathan Chait is a writer for New York magazine and the author of The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics. He is a former senior editor at the New Republic.

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