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John Leo
John Leo, a writer and contributing editor at The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, is a former syndicated columnist, and the author of three books.

Before joining U.S. News & World Report as a columnist in September 1988, he covered the social sciences and intellectual trends for Time and The New York Times. He also reported on religion for the Times, and wrote essays and humor for Time.

Leo is a former associate editor of Commonweal magazine, a former book editor of the sociology magazine Society, and a former deputy commissioner of New York City's Environmental Protection Administration. For ten years, he served on the board of advisers for the Columbia Journalism Review, and he taught journalism at Southampton College on Long Island.

Leo’s first collection of humorous essays, How the Russians Invented Baseball and Other Essays of Enlightenment, was published in 1989. Since then, he has written two more books: Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police (1994), a romp through the irrational world of political correctness, and Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture (2001), a thoughtful analysis of our wayward culture. Leo is currently working on a book about colleges and universities.

He has three daughters and lives in Manhattan with his wife Jacqueline Leo (the editor in chief of Reader's Digest).

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Universal Press Syndicate columns
Lifestyle columnists:
Dear Abby Consejos Cookbook Nook Creating Spaces Double Duty Dinners Figuratively Speaking Focus on the Family Hollywood and Line Kids Talk About God Mr. Handyperson The Last Word in Astrology News of the Weird Scott Burns 7-Day Menu Planner Smart Moves Supermarket Sampler Tell Me a Story On Computers On Ethics Pet Connection Opinion columnists:
As I See It William F. Buckley, Jr. Ann Coulter Maggie Gallagher Georgie Anne Geyer James J. Kilpatrick John Leo National Perspective Ted Rall Richard Reeves Woman to Woman
U.S.News & World Report is a weekly American newsmagazine. Originally United States News, it was renamed when it merged with World Report.

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The editorial staff of U.S.News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C.
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Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London.
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The May 8, 2007 front page of
The New York Times
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner The New York Times Company
Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Staff Writers 350
Founded 1851
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''' Reader's Digest is a monthly general interest family magazine. Although its circulation has declined in recent years, the Audit Bureau of Circulation says Reader's Digest
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Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content.
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Dear Abby is a syndicated advice column started during 1956 by Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips and currently written by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips. Abigail Van Buren has been the pen name used by both writers for the column.
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Focus on the Family (FOTF, or FotF) is an American evangelical group. The non-profit organization was founded in 1977 by Dr. James Dobson, and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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News of the Weird is a syndicated newspaper column edited by Chuck Shepherd that collects bizarre news stories. It was created in 1988. As of 2006, it is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and published in more than 250 newspapers in the United States and Canada.
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William Francis "Bill" Buckley, Jr. (born November 24, 1925) is an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted the television show Firing Line
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Maggie Gallagher (born 14 September 1960) is a United States writer and commentator who has written a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate since 1995. Her most recent book is (Doubleday, 2000), which she co-authored with Linda J.
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Georgie Anne Geyer (born April 2 1935) is an American journalist and columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focus on foreign affairs issues and appear in approximately 120 newspapers in North and Latin America.
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James J. Kilpatrick (b. November 1, 1920) is a conservative columnist and grammarian .

Kilpatrick began writing his syndicated political column, "A Conservative View," in 1964, after he had spent many years as an editor of the Richmond News-Leader.
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Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a liberal columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist whose political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format. His cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States.
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for the New Zealand politician see Richard Reeves (New Zealand)
Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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