Mark Halperin | |
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Halperin at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight
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Born |
Mark Evan Halperin January 11, 1965 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | United States of America |
Education | B.A., Harvard University, 1987 |
Occupation |
Journalist Anchor Author Columnist |
Years active | 1988–present |
Employer |
Bloomberg L.P. NBCUniversal Comcast Time Warner |
Notable work |
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime co-author |
Television |
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth co-star (2015-present) With All Due Respect co-host (2014-2017) Bloomberg Politics co-managing editor (2014-2017) Morning Joe Contributor (2010-) |
Board member of | New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College |
Partner(s) | Karen Avrich |
Parent(s) |
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime co-author
Double Down: Game Change 2012 co-author
Mark Evan Halperin /ˈhælprɪn, -pərɪn/ (born January 11, 1965) is an author, senior political analyst for MSNBC and Bloomberg Television as well as contributor and former co-managing editor (with John Heilemann) of Bloomberg Politics. He is the co-author (with John Heilemann) of Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012. Both Halperin and Heilemann were co-hosts of MSNBC and Bloomberg's With All Due Respect, a political analysis show. Halperin also produced and co-starred (with John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon) in Showtime's: The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, following the presidential candidates behind the scenes of their campaigns in the 2016 United States Presidential Election.
Halperin was born to a Jewish family, the son of Morton Halperin, a foreign policy expert, and Ina Weinstein Halperin Young. He has two brothers, David and Gary. He was born in Bethesda, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, where he became a bar mitzvah at Congregation Beth El and attended Walt Whitman High School. During the summer of 1982, before he began his senior year at Whitman, Mark Halperin lived with a family in Japan as part of the Youth for Understanding program. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1987. Halperin resides in New York City with his girlfriend, Karen Avrich, co-author of Sasha and Emma with her late father and historian Paul Avrich.