Career
From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity. In 2011, he became a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times. Previously, he covered national politics for the Washington Post from 1981 to 2006 after covering politics for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal.
He was the political editor of the Huffington Post from 2007 to 2009, a correspondent for The New Republic from 2006 to 2013 and for the National Journal from 2006 to 2007.
In November and December 2006, Edsall was a guest columnist for the print edition of the New York Times Op-Editor page. Edsall was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Linn Edsall and Katherine Byrne.
He attended Brown University and received his Bachelor of Arts from Boston University in 1966.
