List/Grid Author Archives: E.J. Dionne / Syndicated Columnist
GOP’s Faustian Debt Coming Due
WASHINGTON - Here's why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated. Presiden ...
Obama’s prudent policy on Afghanistan
Among Dana Carvey's most brilliant sketches on "Saturday Night Live" were his dead ...
Huntsman May Be Game Changer
WASHINGTON - Here are the key questions about Jon Huntsman's presidential candidacy: Is h ...
How states are rigging the 2012 election
An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an... Read more »
Gridlocking the lives of the jobless
Welcome to the miserable world of no-way-out politics. The economy needs another jolt, but Congress is in gridlock. Democrats, or most of them, realize that their political futures and the... Read more »
Anthony Weiner and the tweet road to oblivion
At what point do we decide that a political system has become decadent? The breaking point for me was the Anthony Weiner story, not just or even primarily for what... Read more »
The scandal no one is talking about
There’s a scandal in Washington that’s taking a back seat to a much sexier one that you don’t need me to tell you about. The partisan obstruction of President Obama’s... Read more »
Why Paul Ryan is losing the Medicare argument
It always gets back to health care. That’s why 2009 and 2010 were so consumed by President Obama’s push for health-care reform and why Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposals are... Read more »
Disagreement, Civility Needn’t Be Mutually Exclusive
WASHINGTON — Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don’t bark and the wheels that don’t squeak. It’s likely you didn’t hear much about the controversy over House Speaker... Read more »
Lessons for the media, the bishops and John Boehner
Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don’t bark and the wheels that don’t squeak. It’s likely you didn’t hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner’s... Read more »
Debt Ceiling Fight Full of Symbols Meaning Nothing
WASHINGTON — Symbolism doesn’t pay off debts or cover the costs of Social Security and Medicare. This has not stopped politicians in the nation’s capital from engaging in an extended... Read more »
Denial Won’t Change Fact That Health Care Is Deathly Ill
WASHINGTON — As if our political system was not having enough trouble already, we now confront the possibility that a highly partisan judiciary will undo a modest health care reform... Read more »
