E.J. Dionne

Dec 29, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | E.J. Dionne

New Year's resolutions are promises we make to ourselves. Social learning is something we do together, pooling our individual reflections to reach what we hope are wiser conclusions. In a free and democratic society, politics should be a vibrant school for social learning.

Dec 15, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | E.J. Dionne

Besides the president and his staff, who should care about how Joe Biden's policy legacy is judged? Everyone who believes that government should invest in the future and defend the interests of workers and those stuck at the bottom of the income heap - that's who. The trickiest problem for Democrats and progressives in the coming months will not be finding a new electoral strategy. There's plenty of time for that, and the 2024 outcome was close enough to allow multiple paths to the White House.

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | E.J. Dionne

Donald Trump's first election eight years ago unleashed a wave of shock that inspired spirited organizing online and in the streets. The "resistance" was born. Its grassroots work bore fruit two years later, when Democrats seized control of the House. This time around, resistance talk has become unfashionable, and by winning both the popular vote and the electoral college, Trump seems to have knocked the stuffing out of his opposition.

Nov 17, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | E.J. Dionne

Fourteen words should guide how citizens and politicians approach the next four years: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is clear and unambiguous. It says nothing about “consecutive terms” and contains no hedges subject to reinterpretation. Someone who wins the presidency twice can’t ever serve again. Period. This means that when he is inaugurated on Jan.

Nov 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | E.J. Dionne

Democracy Dies in DarknessThe reasons Vice President Kamala Harris lost were all in plain sight. November 7, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. ESTThere’s a style of political autopsy designed mostly to demonstrate the genius of the pathologist: Dear candidate, if you had followed my advice, you would have won in a landslide.