Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He was a columnist for Newsweek magazine from 1984 to 2011. He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the business desk of The Washington Post in 1969. He left the paper to become a freelancer in 1973.
His work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The New Republic and the Columbia Journalism Review.
He joined the National Journal in 1976, where he wrote the "Economic Focus" column. He was a contributing editor there from 1981 to 1984, when he left to write for Newsweek.
Samuelson does not vote in any elections as he believes that voting interferes with his impartiality as a journalist. Samuelson has received:.