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.
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.
Jeremiah Johnson is a staff writer at The Argument based in New York City covering culture, technology and politics. He is also the co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism and host of the New Liberal Podcast, and previously wrote at Infinite Scroll.
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.
Columnists
Derek Thompson is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Abundance, with Ezra Klein. In addition to writing the Derek Thompson newsletter on Substack, he hosts the news podcast “Plain English” with the Ringer Podcast Network, which in 2025 was named one of the 100 best podcasts of all time.
Matt Bruenig is a labor lawyer who has worked for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Machinists Union, SEIU, UFCW, and UAW. Bruenig is also the founder of People’s Policy Project, a think tank that promotes socialist and social democratic policy.
Matt Yglesias writes the Slow Boring newsletter, co-hosts the Politix podcast, and is a columnist for Bloomberg. His most recent book was One Billion Americans.
Dr. Rachael Bedard is an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician who worked as a physician on Rikers Island. In 2022, Bedard founded and ran an organization that supported pro-choice state ballot initiatives. She currently sees patients at a safety net clinic in Brooklyn.
Robinson Meyer is the founding executive editor of Heatmap News and the co-host of Heatmap’s podcast, Shift Key. He is also a contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times. Meyer was previously a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covered climate change, technology, and science.
Fellows
Kobe Yank-Jacobs is The Argument’s Technology & Society fellow. A California native and Boston University graduate, he has worked on Pete Buttigieg’s New Hampshire campaign, Massachusetts voter outreach, public policy research at National Journal, and political consulting. He most recently studied creative writing at Columbia.
Maibritt Henkel is The Argument’s Gender, Families, & Culture fellow. Originally from Copenhagen, she graduated from Harvard in 2025 studying economics and social studies, with research focused on men’s role in feminism. She has previously worked at the Danish magazine Zetland, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in political consulting.
Milan Singh is The Argument’s Polling & Political Data fellow and a senior studying economics at Yale, where he founded the Yale Youth Poll. Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, he has worked at Slow Boring, the Niskanen Center, Blueprint, and the Yale Daily News.