WILLIAM LIANG is a high school student and freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He became a columnist for The Hill in 2025, where he writes on electoral politics, and is a founding editor of Vantage, a new online magazine of analysis and criticism. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Wire, The Nation, UnHerd, Jacobin, The Washington Monthly and elsewhere, and has been featured by RealClearPolitics. He tweets from @williamliang, and you can contact him at this email address.