- E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group
Dionne is a liberal Catholic columnist and blogger for the Washington Post who takes a fairly serious, measured response. Provocative without being a flame-thrower. When Pope Benedict stepped down in 2013, he called for the Catholic church to name a nun as pope. - Megan McArdle, Washington Post
Often writes on tech issues, leans to the right politically. - Leana S. Wen, Washington Post
An MD who writes on public health and health policy - Shadi Hamid, Washington Post
Member of the WaPo’s editorial board, degrees in Arab and Islamic studies. - Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post
Writes on culture, parenting and gender. - Robin Givhan, Washington Post
Pulitzer Prize winning critic at large. Started writing about fashion - Michael Paul Williams – Richmond Times-Dispatch
Won the Pulitzer for commentary for columns on dismantling the city’s Confederate memorials. - David French, New York Times (and others)
French is a center-right commentator for the NY Times and The Atlantic. He is an attorney and an Iraq vet. He writes about religion, family, friends and national issues. - Ezra Klein, New York Times
Formerly a part of a young group of bloggers known as the Juice Box Mafia. Now an established policy wonk writer. - Bret Stephens – NY Times
I am not a fan of Stephens as I think he represents some of the worst tendencies of big-newspaper columnists to view themselves as much more important than they really are. He won the 2013 Pulitzer for commentary in 2013. He also got himself enmeshed in a stupid online fight with political science professor David Karpf that made Stephens look petty and made Karpf a much bigger deal online. - Mary Schmich – Chicago Tribune
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer for commentary. She wrote a “down-to-earth” column that deals with the people of her city for 29 years, retiring in 2021. She also wrote the journalistic comic strip Brenda Starr for many years. She is famous for a column she wrote that called for people to wear sunscreen. The column was an imaginary commencement address that was frequently attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. Another of her quotes has been incorrectly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. - Jamelle Bouie, NY Times
Based in Charlottesville, Va., he writes about national politics. - David Brooks, NY Times
Brooks is a center-right commentator on “PBS NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” as well as for the Times. Often is on shows that try to put a progressive and a conservative on together.
- Gail Collins, NY Times
Writes a “conversation” weekly with Brett Stephens. Takes a progressive point of view. Back in 2001 she was the first woman editorial editor for the NY Times. - Paul Krugman, NY Times
Writes about economics and other issues. Won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008. - Zeynep Tufekci, NY Times
Tufekci writes about sociology and the social effects of technology and has closely examined the impact of and responses to the Covid pandemic. She is originally from Turkey and brings a distinctive voice to the Times.
- Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham
2022 Pulitzer winner for commentary. Among other things, writes about the lasting impact of of the Confederacy in Alabama. - Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Won the 2019 Pulitzer for commentary columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail. - Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald
Pitts won the Pulitzer in 2004 for his columns on how complicated issues affect ordinary people. He’s now retired, but still worth reading about.
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