Steven Pearlstein is an American
columnist
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who wrote on
business and the
economy
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in a column published twice weekly in ''
The Washington Post
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''. His tenure at the WaPo ended on March 3, 2021. Pearlstein received the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity" at ''The Washington Post''. In the fall of 2011, he became the Robinson Professor of Political and International Affairs at
George Mason University
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.
Education
Pearlstein was raised in
Brookline, Massachusetts
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, and graduated from
Trinity College in 1973.
Career
He started out in journalism at the ''
Concord Monitor
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'' and the ''
Foster's Daily Democrat
''Foster's Daily Democrat'' is a six-day (Monday–Saturday) morning broadsheet newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire, United States, covering southeast New Hampshire and southwest Maine.
In addition to its Dover headquarters, ''Foster's'' ...
'', in
New Hampshire
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. He was the founding publisher and editor of ''The Boston Observer'', a monthly journal of liberal opinion, and was a senior editor at
Inc. magazine for two years. Pearlstein then joined ''The Washington Post'', where he has served as deputy business editor.
Pearlstein worked as a television news reporter at
Boston
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’s public television station,
WGBH-TV
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. During the late 1970s, he served as administrative assistant to
U.S. Senator
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The composition and powe ...
John A. Durkin
John Anthony Durkin (March 29, 1936 – October 16, 2012) was an American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.
Early life
Born March 29, 1936, in Brookfield, Massachusetts, Durkin was the yo ...
and
U.S. Representative Michael J. Harrington
Michael Joseph "Mike" Harrington (born September 2, 1936) is an American politician, lawyer and a former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Harrington is the son of former State Senator, Salem mayor, and judge Joseph B. H ...
and was elected to the position of town moderator in
West Newbury, Massachusetts
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History
Originally inhabited by Agawam or Naumkeag peoples, West Newbury was settled by En ...
.
He shared the 2006
Gerald Loeb Award
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for Commentary,
and received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Award in 2011.
In 2018, he published a work of nonfiction, ''Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won't Make Us Poor''.
Personal life
As of 2008 he lives in
Washington, D.C., with his wife, Wendy Gray, and two children.
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See also
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Greenspan put
References
External links
Steven Pearlstein's Columns in ''The Washington Post''*
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni
People from Brookline, Massachusetts
People from West Newbury, Massachusetts
American male journalists
American columnists
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners
The Washington Post people
Concord Monitor people
Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award winners
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials
Jewish American journalists
George Mason University faculty
21st-century American Jews
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