*  The American Enterprise      For more than a dozen years Karl Zinsmeister edited this current-affairs magazine, which developed a passionate national following. (See reader responses here.) In addition to conceiving and organizing each issue, he wrote about 300 articles for the magazine himself.

     A collection of some of Zinsmeister's popular reporting in The American Enterprise is available here.
 
(Unfortunately, the full 13-year archive of TAE issues was attacked by Chinese hackers, destroying a wealth of wonderful writing:  Essays by some of the best thinkers in the English language, from Shelby Foote and Milton Friedman to Andres Duany and Christopher Hitchens.  Great interviews with figures like Pat Moynihan, Robert Duvall, Rupert Murdoch, William F. Buckley, and Bob Costas.  Plus lots of fascinating polling and data, cultural reviews, photography, and more.)
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*  Philanthropy      Karl Zinsmeister was later Editor in Chief of this national magazine circulated to major American donors supporting public causes of all sorts. In addition to choosing issue themes, commissioning and editing articles, steering art and layout, and managing business affairs, he wrote hundreds of articles himself for the publication over the course of a decade—on topics ranging from medical breakthroughs powered by donors, to school reform, to the nature of giving by high-tech barons, to science charities, to national-defense philanthropy.