Joseph Rago

Joseph Rago (January 6, 1983 – July 20, 2017) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American political writer, best known for his work at The Wall Street Journal.

Education Rago attended Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he was president of the National Honor Society. He graduated in 2001.

Rago graduated with a degree in American history from Dartmouth College in 2005.

Career Rago joined The Wall Street Journal in 2005 as an intern and rose from an assistant editor on the op-ed page to editorial writer to a member of the editorial board. Rago was also a 2010 media fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution.

Death In July 2017, Rago was found dead at his East Village, Manhattan apartment; he was 34 years old. In September 2017, New York City's medical examiner office released a statement confirming his cause of death to be sarcoidosis.