Thomas Byrne Edsall is an American journalist and academic, best known for his weekly opinion column for The New York Times online and for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post.
Tom Edsall has been teaching political journalism at Columbia University since 2006. He has been a weekly contributor to The Times online Opinion Pages since 2011. He covered politics for The Washington Post from 1981 to 2006, and before that for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal.
He has written five books: “The Age of Austerity”, “Building Red America,” “Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics,” “Power and Money: Writing About Politics” and “The New Politics of Inequality.” He lives in Washington, D.C.
