David Leonhardt
- Senior Fellow
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Office location
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Horchow Hall
55 Hillhouse Avenue
About
David Leonhardt is a senior writer for The New York Times; he writes The Morning, the publication’s flagship daily newsletter. He has worked at the Times since 1999 and has previously been an op-ed columnist, Washington bureau chief, co-host of The Argument podcast, founding editor of The Upshot section and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. He also led a strategy group that helped Times leadership shape the newsroom’s digital future. Leonhardt has received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2023, Random House published his first book, Ours Is the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream. Leonhardt is a member of the board of trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and a former trustee of the American Academy of Political & Social Science.
Education
- BS in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, 1994