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Ramesh Ponnuru
Senior Editor, National Review; Senior Editor, Bloomberg View; Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at National Review, where he has covered national politics and policy for more than 20 years. He is also a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg View, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a contributing editor to National Affairs, the quarterly journal of conservative ideas. Ponnuru was a 2013 fellow at University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and is author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. In 2015, he was included in the Politico 50, POLITICO’s list of “the thinkers, doers, and dreamers who really matter” in American politics.
Previously
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