| Michael Kinsley  AKA Michael E. Kinsley
Born: 9-Mar-1951
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pundit, Columnist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Slate founder Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate is also a contributing writer at Time magazine. He was also co-host (and token liberal) on CNN's Crossfire for six years, twice editor of The New Republic magazine, former editor of Harpers and the Washington Monthly. He is also known for having been the moderator for William F. Buckley's television debate show Firing Line.
In December 2001 Kinsley announced that he had Parkinson's disease and subsequently stepped down from Slate, but in early 2004 accepted an editorial position at the Los Angeles Times. Wife: Patty Stonesifer (President of the Gates Foundation)
High School: Cranbrook Kingswood School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
University: BA, Harvard University (1972)
University: Oxford University
Law School: JD, Harvard Law School (1977)
Slate
Microsoft Slate
The Los Angeles Times Editorial and Opinion Editor, 2004-05
Time
The Economist American editor
Harper's
The New Republic
Rhodes Scholarship
Risk Factors: Parkinson's
TELEVISION
Crossfire
Firing Line
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Running Mates (13-Aug-2000) Himself
The Birdcage (8-Mar-1996)
Rising Sun (30-Jul-1993)
Dave (7-May-1993) Himself
Author of books:
Curse of the Giant Muffins and other Washington Maladies (1987, nonfiction)
Big Babies: On Presidents, Politics, and National Crazes (1996, essays, columns 1984-96)
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