Michael Kinsley Michael Kinsley was named editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times in June 2004. Kinsley is responsible for The Times' daily editorial and letters page, the Commentary (op-ed) page and the Sunday Opinion section. Most recently Kinsley was a columnist for Slate.com and the Washington Post, and a contributing writer for Time magazine. In 1995 he founded Slate, the online magazine published by Microsoft, and was its editor for six years. For two decades he was associated with The New Republic, as its editor and as author of its "TRB From Washington" column. He was editor-in-chief of Harper's, editor of the American Survey department at The Economist, and managing editor of The Washington Monthly. He co-hosted CNN's "Crossfire" for six years, and also moderated William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" debates. Kinsley has written regular columns for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal and the Times of London. His writing also has appeared in The New Yorker, The Reader's Digest, Condé Nast Traveler and Vanity Fair, among other publications. He earned a B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1972, attended Oxford University and graduated from Harvard Law School with a J.D. degree in 1977.