Linda Kinstler is a writer based in Berkeley, California. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the United Kingdom, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic. She’s a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. She covered the war in Ukraine for The New Republic and served as the magazine’s managing editor. Before that, she was a Google News Lab fellow at Nieman Journalism Lab. She graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.