Ed Kilgore is an American journalist based in Monterey, California.

He is a political columnist at New York Magazine.

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Kilgore is a graduate of Emory University and the University of Georgia School of Law.

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Before joining New York, Kilgore was the principal blogger for the Washington Monthly, a weekly columnist for Talking points memo, and managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.

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He was previously a regular contributor on politics and elections to The New Republic and Five Thirty Eight and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.

Earlier in his career, Kilgore was policy director for the Democratic Leadership Council, communications director for U.S.

Senator Sam Nunn, and a speechwriter and federal-state relations liaison for three governors in the state of Georgia.

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