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E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. A nationally known and respected commentator on politics, Dionne appears weekly on National Public Radio and regularly on MSNBC. He has also appeared on News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other PBS programs. Dionne began his career with New York Times, where he spent 14 years 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. In 1990, Dionne joined the Washington Post as a reporter covering national politics, and he began writing his column in 1993.

His best-selling book, “Why Americans Hate Politics” (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991. The book, which Newsday called “a classic in American political history,” won the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was a National Book Award nominee. He is the author and editor or co-editor of several other books and volumes, including “They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era” (Simon &

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E. J. Dionne

American journalist (born 1952)

Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. () is an American journalist, political commentator, and long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator.

Early life and education

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Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugène J. Dionne, a dentist.^[1][2] He is of French-Canadian descent.^[3] He attended Portsmouth Abbey School (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Dionne graduated in 1973 with a B.A., summa cum laude, in social studies from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House. He also earned a D.Phil. in sociology in 1982 from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Career

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Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several deca