Jacob Weisberg is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, which publishes Slate, The Root, The Big Money and Foreign Policy. He was editor of Slate from 2003 until 2008. Before that, he was Slate's Chief Political Correspondent. Before that, he wrote about politics for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, New York, and The New Republic. A Chicago native, he is the author of several books including The Bush Tragedy, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2008.