James Taranto

James Taranto is editor of OpinionJournal.com, author of
its popular Best of the Web Today column and co-editor
of "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst
in the White House" (Wall Street Journal Books, 2004).
Until the site's launch in 2000 he was deputy editorial
features editor of The Wall Street Journal. He joined the
Journal in 1996 as an assistant editorial features editor
after spending five years as an editor at City Journal, the
Manhattan Institute's quarterly of urban public policy. He
has also worked for the Heritage Foundation, United Press
International, Reason magazine and KNX News Radio in Los
Angeles. He attended California State University,
Northridge