E.J. Dionne, Jr.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a columnist for the Washington Post and Senior Fellow for Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He is also a professor at Georgetown University.
His book Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster, 1991) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. His most recent book is Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right (Princeton University Press, 2008). Dionne has been a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC's "This Week," and NBC's "Meet the Press."
Before joining The Post in 1990 as a political reporter, he spent 14 years at The New York Times, covering local, state, and national politics, and also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. Dionne began his column for The Post in 1993.