Alexander Sammon has joined Slate as a politics writer. Recently, Sammon was a staff writer at The American Prospect, an online and print political and public policy magazine.
He was a reporter-researcher and contributing writer at The New Republic. He was a contributing politics writer at Pacific Standard Magazine.
He was a fellow at Mother Jones and interned at The New York Times.
Sammon graduated from Brown University.
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