Yoni Appelbaum

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Yoni Appelbaum
NationalityAmerican
Education Brandeis University (PhD)
Columbia University (BA)
Occupation(s)Politics Editor, The Atlantic
Known forSocial and cultural historian, Journalist
Political party Democratic
SpouseEmily Pressman
Children2
Parent(s) Diana Muir Karter
Paul S. Appelbaum
Family Binyamin Appelbaum (brother)
Peter Karter (grandfather)
Trish Karter (aunt)
Website Twitter: @YAppelbaum

Yoni Appelbaum, an American historian and journalist, is Senior Editor for politics at The Atlantic . [1] [2] Appelbaum was previously a columnist for the publication. [3]

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Early life and education

Appelbaum is the son of Diana Muir Karter and Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum. He was born in 1979 or 1980. [4] He has two siblings: Binyamin Appelbaum and Avigail Appelbaum. [5] His grandfather is nuclear engineer Peter Karter. His aunt is entrepreneur Trish Karter. He was raised in Newton, Massachusetts [6] and is a graduate of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts. [7] Appelbaum holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Columbia University (2003), and a Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University (2014). [4] [5] [8]

Career

Before moving to The Atlantic, Appelbaum taught at Harvard University. [1] Appelbaum's academic work focused on what he has jokingly called the, "guilded age," the associative republicanism of the late 19th century, an era when mass-membership organizations like the Knights of Pythias, Chicago Lumber Exchange, and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union were central to national politics. [9]

In the March 2019 issue of The Atlantic, Appelbaum wrote a long-form article making the case for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. [10] [11] According to Margaret Sullivan writing in The Washington Post , Appelbaum's essay is the article that "moved... impeachment, all-but-taboo in Big Media’s coverage of Trump,...., from the margins into the mainstream — across the journalism spectrum." [12]

Personal life

In 2004, Appelbaum married Emily Pressman of Wilmington, Delaware, in a Jewish ceremony at Columbia University. They had been dating since they were in college, and Pressman is one year younger than Appelbaum. [13] [4] They have two children. [14]

Publications

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