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social and cultural historian yoni appelbaum
 yoni appelbaum politics editor , the atlantic ph.d. columbia university in american history from brandeis university a.b. from
yoni appelbaum

yoni appelbaum is senior editor for politics at the atlantic .
appelbaum was previously a columnist for the atlantic .
appelbaum holds the a.b. from columbia university , and the ph.d. in history from brandeis university .
before moving to the atlantic , appelbaum taught at harvard university .
appelbaum 's academic work focused on what he has jokingly called the , `` guilded age , '' the associative republicanism of the late 19th century , an era when mass-membership organizations like the knights of pythias , chicago lumber exchange , and the woman 's christian temperance union were central to national politics .
