Elizabeth Bruenig
American journalist (born 1990)
Summary
Elizabeth Bruenig is an American journalist working as an opinion writer for The Atlantic since 2021. She previously worked as a staff writer for The New Republic (2015), an opinion writer and editor for The Washington Post (2016–2020), and as an opinion writer for The New York Times (2020–2021). Bruenig has written about ethics, politics, theology, morality, economics, gender, family, class, and faith. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2019 and in 2023. In 2023, she published her first book, On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy, a collection of her reporting on the death penalty.
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