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Ari Melber is an attorney, television commentator and a correspondent for The Nation magazine, the oldest political weekly in America.
As a commentator on public affairs, Melber frequently appears on national television, including NBC, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FOX News and Bloomberg News; his views have been quoted by publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and Time, among others; and he has been a featured speaker at Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Columbia and NYU, among other institutions. Melber has contributed chapters to the books “America Now,” (St. Martins, 2009) and “At Issue: Affirmative Action,” (Cengage, 2009), and he authored “The Permanent Field Campaign in a Digital Age” (techPresident, 2010), a 74-page special report about Organizing for America.
During the 2008 presidential election, Melber traveled with the Obama Campaign on special assignment for The Washington Independent. Previously, he served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate and as a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign.
Melber received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He is a member of the New York Bar and the American Constitution Society. (Full bio.)
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