About
Osita Nwanevu (b. 1993) is a contributing editor at The New Republic, a columnist at The Guardian, and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is a former staff writer at The New Republic, The New Yorker, and Slate, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, In These Times, Flaming Hydra, and Gawker. His first book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, will be published by Random House in August 2025.
Nwanevu is the former editor in chief of the South Side Weekly, a Chicago alternative newspaper, and holds degrees in public policy from the University of Chicago. He was born in Arlington, Virginia and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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