Online Editor

Brian Resnick

Online Editor

Brian Resnick is an online editor at National Journal. Before joining, Brian spent a year at The Atlantic as a fellow, where he produced content and wrote for TheAtlantic.com. In addition to The Atlantic, his writing has been featured in Popular Mechanics and The News Journal, Delaware's main daily newspaper. Brian graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware in 2011 with a B.A. in psychology. In college, he served as a managing editor for the student newspaper, The Review, and received the E.A Nickerson award for excellence in journalism. He comes from Long Island, New York.

Brian Resnick's Latest Posts

Kerry Wanted to Bomb Syria

By Brian Resnick

According to reporting from Bloomberg View 's Jeffrey Goldberg, Kerry's insistence on an airstrike was not well received by the military brass. Read More »

When Journalists Have Drones

By Brian Resnick

Communications researchers explore the scope and consequences of using unmanned aircraft as news-gathering tools. Read More »

President Obama's Uphill Defense of the NSA Surveillance: Trust Us, Because ... Trust Us

By Brian Resnick

In an interview with Charlie Rose, the president's defense of the NSA program hits a dead end. Read More »

Baseball Holds Up Senate Legislation

By Brian Resnick

... in 1910. Read More »

Supreme Court to Arizona: No, You Cannot Ask Voters to Prove Citizenship

By Brian Resnick

The federal government requires a simple signature to ensure a voter's citizenship. Now, states can't preempt that. Read More »

Overheard at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's 'Road to Majority Conference'

By Brian Resnick

The biggest, strangest, most important lines from this week's Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. Read More »

The Myriad Decision Is Huge Because Genetic Medicine Is About to Explode

By Brian Resnick

Costs for genetic testing might reach $25 billion by 2021. Read More »

Historical Proof: The Congressional Baseball Game Is the Most Intense Contest in All of Sport

By Brian Resnick

There's no crying in congressional baseball. Read More »

No One Knew Who Trent Franks Was Until He Mentioned Rape and Abortion

By Brian Resnick

There's one surefire way to get your name out there—be a Republican and say few pregnancies result from rape. Read More »

Move Over, Grandma: Why Kids Should Be the Priority for Flu Vaccines

By Brian Resnick

Kids have a lot of germs. Vaccinating them could keep the rest of us flu free. Read More »

What Is Going On in Istanbul?

By Brian Resnick

Images of the erupting protests on the streets of Turkey's largest city Read More »

Are South Africans Ready for a Future Without Nelson Mandela?

By Brian Resnick

It's not so much his day-to-day impact people fear losing, it's something more esoteric. They're afraid of losing his idea. Read More »

Study: Female Politicians Are Stereotyped, But Not as Women

By Brian Resnick

Voters have ill-defined ideas about what it means to be a female politician. Read More »

New Hampshire Governor Frees 14 Slaves

By Brian Resnick

In a move some might call "too little, too late," New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a bill Friday freeing 14 slaves. Read More »

President Obama: If You Trust Your Congress, Trust in the NSA Data Collection

By Brian Resnick

"But if you look at the details ... I think we have struck a nice balance." Read More »

ECONOMY

What Is Capitalism? A Lesson From 1948

By Brian Resnick

A 1948 instructional video shows a group of high schoolers in debate about what free enterprise means, and to what extent it needs to be protected and regulated by the government. Read More »

VIDEO

Social Security and You -- A 1950s Video Explainer

By Brian Resnick

In 1950, President Truman signed into law amendments to the Social Security Act, which greatly increased the scope of the program. Old age and survivor insurance was extended to 10 million more Americans, and benefits were mad...

POLITICS

July, in Protests--PICTURES

By Brian Resnick

July was hot. Really, really hot . Climatologists are even speculating it will be the hottest month on record . But even this extreme heat could not stop Americans from expressing their First Amendment rights to gather and pr...

A Day in the Life of Washington, 1936

By Brian Resnick

It's 1936, and despite wallowing in the midst of the Great Depression, the city of Washington is bustling. Read More »

Rupert Murdoch Resigns From News International Boards

By Brian Resnick

Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the News International Group, The Telegraph is reporting . UK filings show he has stepped down from the NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings, and News Corp Investments. He ha...

ECONOMY

The 2012 Drought's Impact: A Visual Guide

By Brian Resnick

The impact of severe weather trickles down to the marketplace, shaking up the argicultural economy in the process. Here's a visual summary of the drought's impact across the country. Read More »

What Women (and Men) Say About Gender Equality in Washington

By Brian Resnick

On a recent survey of D.C. professionals, Women were more likely to report gender discrimination in the workplace. Read More »

EDUCATION

When Teachers Overcompensate for Racial Prejudice

By Brian Resnick, The Atlantic

The performance gap between white and minority students is one of the most persisting problems in American education. Since the 1990s, the performance gap, as reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, h...