Siddhartha Mahanta is a writer and contributing editor for Jewish Currents. He has served on the editorial staffs of The New York Times Opinion section, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones. Prior to editorial work, Mahanta was a policy analyst with the Open Markets program at New America. He's reported on the impact of economic power on agricultural and food systems, on tax policy, criminal justice, lobbying, & technology. He hails from Sugar Land, Texas.