Personal Life
Weingarten attended the Bronx High School of Science and New York University; at NYU he "majored in psychology, but only because it was the easiest major"; he "spent all time as editor of the daily newspaper, and then dropped out with three credits to go."
Weingarten used to live in Bethesda, Maryland. Since 2001 he has lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. with his wife, an attorney. He has two children, Molly, a veterinarian, and Dan, a college student and cartoonist.
Weingarten is an atheist.
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