Christopher Hayes is the Washington D.C. Editor of The Nation. Since 2002, he has been reporting and writing on politics, economics, and labor for a wide variety of independent publications. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Hayes was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times, where he spearheaded the political coverage that won recognition from Utne Magazine for being the best in the country. He grew up in the Bronx, and graduated from Brown University in 2001 with a B.A. in Philosophy.

As a Washington D.C.-based fellow at New America, Mr. Hayes' work focuses on the cultural and political history of inflation, the politics of prices, and the ways in which monetary policy has been part of a larger trend towards the de-democratization of the American economy.