Justin Elliott is a reporter-blogger at TPMmuckraker. Previously, he served for over a year as the News Editor for TPM, during which time he once used the word "apophasis" on the front page. He has a degree from Brown, where he studied history and classics and served as executive editor and vice president of the Brown Daily Herald. He has written for Mother Jones, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and other publications.

Justin's formative political experience was as a U.S. Senate page in 2002, where he attended Bush's "axis of evil" speech and watched Strom Thurmond ply female pages with mint candies. A native of Bridgewater, Mass., he now lives in Brooklyn and can be reached at justin /at/ talkingpointsmemo.com.