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Eugene Robinson, Contributor

 

EUGENE ROBINSON uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick American society apart and then put it back together again in unexpected, and revelatory, new ways. To do this job of demolition and reassembly, Robinson relies on a large and varied tool kit: energy, curiosity, elegant writing, and the wide-ranging experience of a life that took him from childhood in the segregated South—on what they called the “colored” side of the tracks—to the heights of American journalism.

In a 25-year career at The Washington Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s award-winning Style section. He has written books about race in Brazil and music in Cuba, covered a heavyweight championship fight, witnessed riots in Philadelphia and a murder trial in the deepest Amazon, sat with presidents and dictators and the Queen of England, thrusted and parried with hair-proud politicians from sea to shining sea, handicapped all three editions of “American Idol,” acquired fluent Spanish and passable Portuguese, and even reached an uneasy truce with the noxious hip-hop lyrics that fester in his teenage son’s innocent-looking iPod.


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2009

11/20 Battlefield in the War of Ideas

11/16 Our Rogue Evita

11/12 Bring Them Home, Mr. President

11/09 When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

11/05 Republicans vs. the Palinites

11/03 A Record You Can Believe In

10/29 Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

10/27 Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

10/22 Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

10/19 Anything to Be on TV

10/15 A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

10/12 Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

10/08 Rangel’s Portrait of Corruption

10/05 Put a Sock in it, Stan

10/01 Polanski Brings Out the Worst in Hollywood

09/29 Bring Polanski to Justice

09/23 The Worst Type of Cad

09/21 It Came From Afghanistan

09/17 Jimmy Carter Is Right

09/14 Wall Street Is Still Playing the Odds

09/10 No Way to Treat a President

09/07 Stuck in the Middle

09/03 From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

08/31 A Good Idea, Up in Flames

08/28 The Eternal Prince

08/24 We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

08/21 Missing: Democrats’ Passion

08/17 Playing Defense Isn’t Working

08/13 How Bad Things Might Have Been

08/11 A Reason for All the Health Care Rage

08/03 The Nut Job as Political Force

07/28 What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?

07/20 Black America’s New Reality

07/13 White Men Can’t Trump

07/07 Don’t Cry for Me, Alaska

06/27 Perils of a Prodigy

06/11 The Lone Wolves Among Us

06/08 Being Obama Matters

06/04 Clean Coal or Dry Hole?

06/01 A Lemon of a Bailout

05/28 Hung Up on Race

05/26 Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

05/12 Old Faithful of Nonsense

05/08 On Gays, Obama’s Turn

05/05 A World Without the Globe?

05/01 Republicans on a Bridge to Nowhere

04/27 The Devils We Know

04/23 Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

04/20 When Slapped, Slap Back

04/17 Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

04/14 Castro’s Racial-Paradise Myth

04/10 Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

04/07 Crazy Like a Fox?

04/02 The Irrelevance of Race

03/30 Cars, Banks and Confusion

03/26 Drugs, Guns and Reality

03/23 A Repairman, Not a Revolutionary

03/19 The Geithner Problem

03/16 Now It’s Personal

03/12 A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

03/03 America’s New Trajectory

02/26 A Reason to Believe in Miracles

02/23 Turn a Harsh Light Onto the Banks

02/19 Stop Explaining, Start Packing

02/16 Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

02/13 Mr. Inside

02/09 Slam the Door on Compromise

02/02 Who Knew Bankers Were This Stupid?

01/29 The GOP’s Soundproof Room

01/27 Maybe the Only Crime Was by Blago’s Barber

01/23 Obama’s Salvage Operation

01/20 Giving Obama the Benefit of the Doubt

01/15 The District of Pandemonium

01/12 Bush’s Short View of History

01/01 Our Cuba Policy: A Failure at 50

2008

12/31 Swindler of the Year

12/23 From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

12/19 Pondering the Inner Meanings of Bill’s Big List

12/15 Killing the Big 3 Would Be Nuts

12/11 This Isn’t a Time to Be Coy, Mr. Obama

12/09 Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

12/05 Bush the Infallible

12/01 Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

11/26 The Peril and Promise of Interesting Times

11/24 No One In Charge

11/20 Sooner or Later, They’ll Bail Out Detroit

11/18 No More Torture

11/14 For the Moment, Obama Seems Ridicule-Proof

11/11 The GOP’s Long, Rough Road

11/03 A New Pride in Our Country

10/31 Don’t Underestimate Palin

10/27 The McCain Ship Drifts in a Tide

10/23 Life After November 4th

10/20 Powell Said What Obama Couldn’t

10/17 McCain Sounds Worse Than He Looks

10/13 The GOP Identity Crisis

10/10 Welcome to the Third World, America

10/06 Weapons of Mass Distraction

10/02 A Welcome Pause Before the Bailing Starts

09/30 From Fired U.S. Attorneys to Sarah Palin

               

               


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