Thomas B. Edsall has been a weekly opinion columnist for The New York Times since 2011, covering demographic and strategic trends in American politics.

From 2006 to 2014 he held the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Edsall covered national politics for The Washington Post for 25 years, from 1981 to 2006.

He has been a contributing writer for The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Atlantic, National Journal, The Washington Monthly, Harper's, and Dissent.

He is the author of six books, including Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics; Point of No Return; The Age of Austerity; Building Red America Power and Money; and The New Politics of Inequality. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1992 in General Nonfiction, and is the winner of the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association, and the Noel Markwell Media Award.