E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. A nationally respected commentator on politics, Dionne appears weekly on NPR and regularly on MSNBC. He is a regular contributor to NBC’s Meet the Press. He has also appeared on News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other PBS programs. Dionne joined the Post in 1990 and began writing his column in 1993.