Megan Carpentier is a freelance writer and editor whose work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Week, The Baffler, Glamour, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, and CNN.com, among others. She was, among other staff positions, one of the founding editors of NBC News’ opinion section, Think; a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report; a feature writer and opinion editor at Guardian US; and an associate editor at Talking Points Memo.