Mickey Kaus
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Kaus in 2009
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Robert Michael Kaus July 6, 1951 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Other names | "Mickey" Kaus |
| Education | Undergraduate degree from Harvard (1973); Law degree from Harvard law school |
| Occupation | author, journalist, blogger |
| Notable credit(s) | noted blogger; author of several books; on air personality for several audio and video media outlets; published journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic and Washington Monthly, among other places |
| Relatives | brother: Stephen Kaus |
| Website | http://www.kausfiles.com |
Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus (/ˈkaʊs/; born July 6, 1951) is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications. Kaus is also a columnist at Breitbart News Network.
Kaus was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Peggy A. (Huttenback), a civic activist, and Otto Kaus, a Democrat and California Supreme Court Associate Justice. His brother, Stephen Kaus, is a lawyer and occasional commentator on The Huffington Post. His paternal grandmother was novelist and screenwriter Gina Kaus. His father was born in Vienna, Austria, and his mother was born in Germany. His parents were both from Jewish families. Kaus attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School but has never practiced law. He currently resides in Venice Beach, California.
Kaus first wrote Slate's "Chatterbox" column in 1997 but started Kausfiles in 1999 as a private blog. In 2002, he returned to Slate at the invitation of editor Michael Kinsley. During 2003, the daily readership of Kausfiles varied between 15,000 and 30,000.
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