The Team

Jerusalem Demsas is the Editor-in-Chief of The Argument. Most recently, she was a staff writer at The Atlantic where she created and hosted the podcast Good on Paper. Her work has spanned such issues as citizen voice, federalism, labor economics, NIMBY-ism, gentrification, race, gender, and the politics of exclusion. Demsas is the author of On The Housing Crisis: Land, Development, and Democracy. She previously wrote for Vox as a policy journalist and co-hosted the The Weeds.

Jordan Weissmann is a staff writer and editor at The Argument based in Washington, DC. He’s previously written and edited for The Atlantic, Slate, The Washington Post, Semafor, and Yahoo Finance. His dad hobbies include reading New Deal history and collecting whiskey.

Kelsey Piper is a staff writer at The Argument based in Oakland reporting on AI, tech, science, and politics. She previously worked as a staff writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

Lakshya Jain is a pollster, machine learning engineer, and The Argument’s director of political data. Jain founded the election analysis firm Split Ticket which has received acclaim for their accurate models and novel ways of presenting election data. His work has previously been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and POLITICO.