Mark Schmitt is an American political scientist and author, and is Director of the Fellows Program at the Roosevelt Institute.

Recent executive editors have included (from oldest to latest) Michael Tomasky, Harold Meyerson, and Mark Schmitt.

He received his episcopal consecration on January 25, 2006 from Adam Cardinal Maida, with Bishops James Garland and Mark Schmitt serving as co-consecrators.

As Mark Schmitt points out in the New Republic, polls show that "people no longer care that he cares.

These currently include Paul Begala, Daniel Benjamin, Steve Clemons, Jonathan Cohn, Brad DeLong, Amitai Etzioni, Todd Gitlin, Danny Goldberg, Reed Hundt, John Ikenberry, Larry C. Johnson, Michael Lind, Kevin Phillips, Mark Schmitt, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ruy Teixeira, Elizabeth Warren, among others.

But, as Mark Schmitt has argued in The American Prospect, Obama's national-unity pitch should be viewed as a tactic as well as an ideal.

Mark Schmitt in The American Prospect referred to the book as "superb", and applauded Zaitchik for showing how "Beck's blackboard schemes" display "the oceanic audacity of his self-serving ignorance."