E.J. Dionne is a twice-weekly columnist for The Post, writing on national policy and politics. His column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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 serve as a foreign correspondant in Paris, Rome and Beirut. Dionne began his column for The Post in 1993. He is a University Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Dionne has been a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s “This Week,” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” His book “Why Americans Hate Politics” (1991), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. He is also author of “Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge” (2004), and “They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era” (1996).

Dionne received the American Political Science Association’s annual Carey McWilliams Award in 1996 for a major journalistic contribution to the understanding of politics. In 2002, he received the Empathy Award from the Volunteers of America, and in 2004 he won the National Human Services Assembly’s Award for Excellence by a Member of the Media.