Jen­nifer Senior is a con­tribut­ing edi­tor at New York Mag­a­zine, where she writes pro­files and cov­er sto­ries about pol­i­tics and social sci­ence. Her work has been anthol­o­gized in The Best Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Writ­ing, and she is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to The New York Times Book Review. She lives in New York with her hus­band and young son.