17 Facts About Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle was born on January 29,1973 and is an American columnist and blogger based in Washington, DC She writes for The Washington Post, mostly about economics, finance, and government policy.

Megan McArdle is currently an opinion writer for The Washington Post.

Megan McArdle has published book reviews and opinion pieces in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian, and Salon.

Megan McArdle's mother, Joan McArdle, was a real estate broker for Prudential Douglas Elliman.

Megan McArdle then earned an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Megan McArdle began blogging in November 2001 with a blog called "Live From The WTC," which arose from her employment with a construction firm involved in cleanup at the World Trade Center site following the September 11 attacks.

Megan McArdle wrote under the pen name "Jane Galt," playing on the name "John Galt," a central character in Ayn Rand's Objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged.

Megan McArdle gained some online attention in May 2003 for coining what she termed "Jane's Law" in a blog post discussing political behaviors.

Megan McArdle was an outspoken supporter of the Iraq War both before and after the invasion by the United States.

Megan McArdle later made a partial admission of error for this position.

Megan McArdle was a Bernard L Schwartz fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

In June 2013, Megan McArdle announced that she was departing Newsweek to join Bloomberg View as a columnist.

Megan McArdle is an occasional television and radio commentator, having appeared on The Kudlow Report, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and American Public Media's Marketplace.

Megan McArdle joined The Washington Post as an opinion columnist in March 2018.

In late 2008, Megan McArdle wrote extensively against a proposed federal bailout of the US auto industry.

Since 2009, Megan McArdle has argued extensively against instituting a system of national health insurance in the United States, and specifically against the federal health care reform bill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in March 2010.

Megan McArdle married Peter Suderman, an associate editor for the libertarian magazine Reason, in 2010.