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Jonathan Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic, writes about the policy and politics of taxes, health care reform, the federal budget, and many other issues. He has been with the magazine since 1995, previously as a staff writer and reporter researcher.

After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1994, Chait was an assistant editor at the American Prospect before joining TNR. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Reason.

He resides in Washington, D.C.
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Nam Disclosure
Post date 10 08, 07
'McCain said that he urged Kerry some time ago not to talk about Vietnam during his campaign. 'I did advise John. I said, "Look, you shouldn't talk about Vietnam because everybody else will. Let everybody else do it." His advisers figured that was probably not enough, that he had to emphasize that in his campaign. In my campaign, as you know, I didn't talk about it because I didn't need to.'" -- The Washington Post, August 27, 2004		Feast of the Wingnuts
Post date 09 10, 07
This piece is adapted from Jonathan Chait's book, The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, which will be published on September 12 by Houghton Mifflin.
French Dressing
Post date 09 24, 07
For most people, the alarming thing about a prospective recession is the possibility of losing their jobs or not getting a raise. For me, it's the horrifying thought that I'm going to have to go back to refuting the same tax rationales I was refuting six years ago.