Robert McCartney
Robert McCartney
Columnist

Robert McCartney’s column on local issues appears Thursdays and Sundays in The Post’s Metro section. He also does a Friday radio commentary on WAMU (88.5 FM), and has been a regular guest on local television stations WTTG Fox 5 and News Channel 8. Before becoming a columnist in 2009, McCartney was The Post’s top Metro editor. In that job, he supervised coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, for which the staff received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Since joining The Post in 1982, McCartney has held a wide variety of jobs including Foreign Editor, national security editor, foreign correspondent in Mexico and Germany, and Managing Editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris. As a reporter, McCartney covered the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.

Latest by Robert McCartney

Cuccinelli must say whether he’d still be tea party warrior as governor

Cuccinelli must say whether he’d still be tea party warrior as governor

Virginia voters must learn whether GOP firebrand Cuccinelli would moderate agenda as governor.

On gay issue, local Scout leaders stay mum

On gay issue, local Scout leaders stay mum

COLUMN | Washington area Boy Scout council betrays ideals by refusing to take a stand on gays.

Missing late Mom’s ‘bad attitude’ on Mother’s Day

Missing late Mom’s ‘bad attitude’ on Mother’s Day

Mom’s passing leaves an empty space once filled by humorous tirades over politics and Redskins.

Pact is a rare success

Pact is a rare success

If the D.C. area can collaborate on sewage, why not the FBI, bridges, Redskins?