E.J. Dionne, Jr.

He employs his passions for people and politics and his keen intellect to deliver reasoned analysis that is followed by a wide circle of policy-makers nationwide – on the left, right and center. In his columns as well as his appearances as a commentator for National Public Radio, ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dionne demonstrates that he “knows the present with the keen sense of a beat reporter and the past with the perspective of a scholarly historian” (America Magazine, 2008). William Safire, writing in The New York Times, said in 2008 that Dionne is “emerging as one of the most insightful of the liberal columnists.”

Dionne began his now twice-weekly op-ed column for The Washington Post in 1993. In 1996, it was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, and he now appears in more than 100 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Before joining The Post in 1990 as a reporter covering national politics, he spent 14 years with The New York Times, reporting on state and local government, national politics, and from around the world, including stints in Paris, Rome and Beirut. The Los Angeles Times praised his coverage of the Vatican as the best in two decades.

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