Will Wilkinson is a center-left writer and former vice president for research at the formerly nominally libertarian Niskanen Center. Wilkinson is the former U.S. politics correspondent for The Economist magazine, a research fellow for the center-right Cato Institute, and a former program director for the center-right Mercatus Center. He is a columnist for the left-wing website Vox and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.