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Greg Sargent

Opinion · politics commentary · @ThePlumLineGS on X

Staff writer at The New Republic and host of its podcast 'The Daily Blast'. He wrote the Plum Line blog and columns at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023.

Previously: The Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, New York Observer

Slant Score · ranked #30 of 175 from most left to most right
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Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.

The receipts (1)

Partisan opinion role · served the left · +3.5 L · Dec 29, 2023

Liberal opinion writer (Plum Line, TNR)

Sargent created the Post's Plum Line blog and now writes for The New Republic, a progressive magazine. He wrote 'An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.'

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