Jacob Weisberg, 33, has written about politics and policy for more than a decade. A native of Chicago, he attended Yale University and New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 1989 until 1994, he worked in various capacities (Associate Editor, Managing Editor, Deputy Editor and Senior Editor) at The New Republic. Between 1994 and 1996, he wrote the National Interest column for New York Magazine. In the fall of 1996, he joined Slate, the Internet magazine published by Microsoft, to cover the presidential campaign and write a weekly column called "Strange Bedfellow."

Weisberg has also been contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington. He has written freelance for many other publications, including The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Esquire, GQ, The Washington Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times of London, and The Observer. He remains a contributing editor at The New Republic.

In 1996 his book In Defense of Government was published by Scribner. Weisberg was also the co-editor, with Andrew Sullivan, of the 1992 paperback Bushisms (Workman).