- Dana Milbank
- Opinion Writer
Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital. He joined The Post as a political reporter in 2000, after two years as a senior editor of The New Republic and eight years with the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of three political books: Tears of a Clown (2010), Homo Politicus (2008) and Smashmouth (2001). He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter.
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- Do Republicans really want to clone one for the Gipper?
- Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan sees no cause for alarm
- Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat
- President Obama not feeling cooperation from Europe
- John Boehner’s debt sword — at the ready
- Rand Paul’s cynical budget
- Where have all the candidates gone?
- Barack Obama, the first female president
- Richard Mourdock and Keith Judd vs. Washington
- Obama comes out in favor of same-sex marriage
- Mitt Romney won’t stand up to his own party
- Vice President Biden’s gay-marriage gaffe is mess for White House
- Taking out Dick Lugar
- Newt Gingrich may have ended campaign, but he will remain out of this world
- Our do-almost-nothing Congress
- President Obama, campaigner in chief
- A faith-based lesson for Paul Ryan
- On Arizona immigration law, Justice Scalia and street protesters make same case
- Romney won’t be able to shake immigration debate
- A congressional deal on immigration? Dream on.
- Throw out the president’s Cabinet
- Democrats battle back against Republican ‘war on women’
- Debauchery: An American specialty
- What was the GSA’s Jeffrey Neely thinking?
- Al Sharpton, power player
- Rebuffing Obama’s gimmicky ‘Buffett Rule’
- In Gettysburg, Rick Santorum surrenders
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- The facts vs. Mitt Romney
- Mitt Romney, talking to the press, keeps the press at a distance
- From tracking al-Qaeda to tracking the wayward spouse
- Budget cuts as back-door deregulation
- My pet Mitt
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- Mitt Romney camp’s latest gaffe may be etched in history
- Paul Ryan, helping the poor by hurting them
- Supreme Court conceives of life after death
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- ‘Mediscare,’ Republican style
- David Cameron’s special relationship with President Obama
- In Section 60, a silent search for meaning
- Liberal superheroes don’t exactly have super PACs shaking in their boots
- It’s time to believe: Romney’s a winner
- The GOP’s gasoline alley
- Settling in to Washington’s ways
- AIPAC beats the drums of war
- The GOP’s vagina monologue
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- A moderate’s lament
- Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech, in (mostly) his own words
- Common ground becomes a great divide
- Dana Milbank Live: Santorum's Nazi comparisons and more
- An expert witness for the GOP gender gap
- Rick Santorum cries Nazi
- Romney’s different kind of fire in the belly
- Dana Milbank Live: The GOP demands chimichanga tweet apology. Should they get it?
- The chimichanga wars
- Objections of conscience? Or of politics?
- Does the GOP care about Latino voters?
- Obama’s budget games
- Nattering nabobs of negativism
- Dana Milbank Live: Is Obama caving on contraception mandate?
- Obama’s lucky break
- Jack Abramoff’s atonement
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- Meet Mitt Romney’s cousin
- House freshmen have a grand(standing) plan to cut the national debt
- The media ♥ Newt Gingrich
- The end of the road for Newt Gingrich?
- Romney's rise, Gingrich's moon plans and more: Dana Milbank Live
- Ben Bernanke smiles in the face of critics
- Gingrich is Obama’s best surrogate
- Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney’s attack dog
- For the religious right, faith without works
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- For House Republicans, a game of debt charades
- Roe v. Wade’s greedy offspring
- Mitt Romney’s Al Gore problem
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- Kamikaze Gingrich, on the loose in South Carolina
- Journalists’ campaign trail secrets revealed
- Mitt Romney’s money problem
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- Newtonian exceptionalism
- Mitt Romney out of control
- Indecision 2012: In Iowa and the GOP
- Rick Santorum’s curious closing argument
- A few cracks in my crystal ball
- After payroll-tax debacle, GOP goes into damage-control mode
- Braveheart Republicans? Or false-hearted?
- On tap: Radical Republican Winterfest
- Dana Milbank Live: Why a cellphone ban would be a distraction
- Cellphone ban would be a distraction
- Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and the Malfunction Minuet
- The presidential auction of 2012
- Newt’s nastiness comes back to haunt him
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- Republicans color the abortion debate
- Occupy movement searches for the right notes
- The winner of the GOP campaign: Washington
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- Barney the bully: Congressman Frank’s other legacy
- Supercommittee death brings Rob Portman new life
- Jon Kyl’s search-and-destroy mission
- The end of the supercommittee affair
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- Pay to play, brought to you by Washington
- Big enough to save the supercommittee?
- Why Newt Gingrich won’t last
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- The era of not my responsibility
- Fast and Furious: The scandal Republicans have been waiting for?
- The 2012 campaign gets seedier
- Dana Milbank shows some leg
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- A Machiavellian model for Obama
- Dana Milbank Live: Elizabeth Warren's winning formula
- The Herman Cain crack-up
- House Republicans, keeping the faith
- Herman Cain can do no wrong
- Dana Milbank Live: Elizabeth Warren's winning formula
- Elizabeth Warren’s winning formula
- Stuntmen of the supercommittee
- Democrats on the sidelines
- Rick Perry’s birther Parade
- The birthers eat their own
- Republicans' 'shocking' immigration stance: Dana Milbank Live
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- A Republican hazing ritual on Capitol Hill
- Jon Huntsman, the reasonable Republican
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- The waiting for nothing Congress
- The Tea Party loses another round
- D.C.’s Occupy protest, attracting only the usual suspects
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- Can Obama strike an alliance with Occupy Wall Street?
- Ask Republicans about jobs, they’ll answer about Obamacare
- Chris Christie, such a presidential tease
- Obama and his foot soldiers go toe to toe
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- Chris Christie can’t save us
- Can Herman Cain deliver an upset?
- The birthing of Solyndra
- The triumph of Ron Paul: Dana Milbank Live
- Republicans? Mr. Nice Guys?
- Why Ron Paul is winning the GOP primary
- I am a job creator who creates no jobs
- Obama launches a revolution
- Dana Milbank Live: Why Democrats should be nice to Romney
- Democrats for Romney?
- Republicans’ underhanded serve
- ‘Supercommittee’? More like stupor committee.
- The front-runner has no clothes
- Is Obama irrelevant?: Dana Milbank Live
- The irrelevancy of the Obama presidency
- Rick Perry comes out fighting
- Mitt Romney finds his (corporate) voice
- Politics without purpose
- Dana Milbank Live: Dick Cheney's happy talk
- The infallible Dick Cheney
- Rick Perry is no libertarian
- Hurricane Irene and the benefits of Big Government
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- Wanted: More bite from Obama the Great Nibbler
- Rep. Austin Scott's Tea Party betrayal: Dana Milbank live
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- How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots
- The most powerful man on Earth?
- Dana Milbank Live: A Republican apology, angry liberals, woeful Obama, and more
- The FAA shutdown and the new rules of Washington
- Lt. Col. Allen West fires a round at the Tea Party
- Government on autopilot
- Democrats mourn debt deal like death
- John Boehner’s no-confidence vote
- John Boehner's downfall: Dana Milbank Live
- Sex and violence on Capitol Hill
- In debt debate, life imitates sport
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- Congress equals middle school? Dana Milbank Live
- Dangerous dealings with the Default Caucus
- Why Americans are angry at Congress
- The new party of Reagan
- In a ‘quiet moment,’ gay judge makes history
- Obama presser and debt talk: Dana Milbank Live
- Rob Portman, the boring Midwesterner who could bring sanity to the debt debate
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- Eric Cantor’s slick upper lip
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