Batya Ungar-Sargon is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek and the author of the forthcoming book Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. Previously, she was the opinion editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books Daily, and other publications. She has appeared numerous times on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show and NPR. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.