
Judd Legum
ABOUT JUDD LEGUM
American journalist, lawyer, and political staffer best known as the founder of the progressive news and politics website ThinkProgress. In 2018, he began developing an independent newsletter on Substack called Popular Information.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College in 2000 and a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2003.
He unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010.
He was born in Annapolis, Maryland.
Like Matt Taibbi , he was an early participant in Substack's publishing model.