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E.J. Dionne

E.J. Dionne comes close to calling for Biden to step down

John Fea   |  July 8, 2024

Here is The Washington Post columnist: Of course Biden remains hugely preferable to Trump. But reporters aren’t making up the alarm they are hearing from Democratic politicians. Many who worry that his candidacy is unsustainable have been holding back out […]

“Trump should be thrown off the ballot.” Historians convince E.J. Dionne

John Fea   |  February 5, 2024

When the Colorado–14th Amendment ballot case broke, Washington Post columnist and public intellectual E.J. Dionne was skeptical. He was among those who thought that Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado and let the people decide whether he should […]

What is Bidenomics?

John Fea   |  June 30, 2023

E.J. Dionne explains: President Biden might not seem like a revolutionary, but he is presiding over a fundamental change in the nation’s approach to economics. Not only is he proposing a major break from the “trickle-down” policies of Ronald Reagan, […]

E.J. Dionne endorses Liz Cheney

John Fea   |  July 21, 2022

Here is the liberal Washington Post columnist: Vote for Cheney. Now there is a sentence I never expected to write. Yes, I hope that every Democrat and every moderate and progressive-minded unaffiliated voter in Wyoming crosses into the Republican primary on Aug. […]

Where are the Rusty Bowers Republicans?

John Fea   |  June 22, 2022

Watch Rusty Bowers testifying yesterday before the House Select Committee on January 6th: Here is E.J. Dionne at The Washington Post: Note to every politician in the GOP: You have to decide. You can be a Rusty Bowers Republican. Or you can […]

“While the Right has been busy taking the White House, the Left has been marching on the English department.” E.J. Dionne and Michael Kazin remember Todd Gitlin.

John Fea   |  February 10, 2022

Here is a taste of Dionne’s column on the hero of the New Left who died this past weekend at the age of 79: …Gitlin was president of SDS from 1963 to 1964 and wrote the best account of the […]