Mark Strauss is a U.S. journalist

Media of the United States

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 and senior editor at Smithsonian Magazine. Previously, he was the editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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, winner of the 2007 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (in the under 100,000 circulation category) awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Prior to joining the Bulletin, he was senior editor at the bimonthly magazine Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

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, for which he had worked since 1997. He has contributed articles to Slate

Slate (magazine)

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, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post

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, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, The Spectator

The Spectator

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, the Brown Journal of World Affairs

Brown Journal of World Affairs

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, and Washington Monthly. He has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio, and the BBC

BBC

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. Prior to joining Foreign Policy, he was a research assistant at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

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's Foreign Policy Studies program, and he served on the staff of a number of prominent national magazines, including SAIS Review

SAIS Review

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, Spy Magazine

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, and Discover Magazine.

Strauss received his Bachelor of Arts

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 degree from Macalester College

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 and his master's degree

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 in journalism fromColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He earned his master's degree in Middle East studies and international economics at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

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.

Strauss is listed in the 2008 edition of Marquis Who's Who in America.