is the editorial director and public policy fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. Weisman joined the Peterson Institute in 2008, after serving as a correspondent, editor, and editorial writer at The New York Times, based in New York, Washington, India, and Japan. In 2004, he won the Edward Weintal Prize from Georgetown University for his reporting on diplomacy and international affairs. His book, The Great Tax Wars: How the Income Tax Transformed the Nation, received the Sidney Hillman Award in 2003 for the book that most advances the cause of social justice. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume of the private letters of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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