David Plotz

<p>David Plotz is the editor of <em>Slate</em>. He has written for <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>, <em>Harper's</em>, <em>Rolling Stone</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, and <em>GQ</em>, and is the author of <em>The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank</em>. He won the National Press Club's Hume Award for political journalism and has been a National Magazine Award finalist. He lives with his wife, the journalist Hanna Rosin, and their children in Washington, D.C.</p>