Charles Lane

Washington, D.C.

Editorial writer and columnist specializing in economic and fiscal policy Education: Harvard College, BA in social studies; Yale Law School, MSL

 Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer specializing in economic and fiscal policy, a weekly columnist and a contributor to the PostPartisan blog. Lane joined The Post in 2000 as an editorial writer, did a stint as The Post’s Supreme Court reporter and then rejoined the editorial board in 2007. Previously, he was editor and a senior editor of the New Republic from 1993 to 1999 and a foreign correspondent for Newsweek from 1987 to 1993. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Latest from Charles Lane

Bernie Sanders’s first step to democratic socialism? Privatizing it.

Or so one could conclude from his latest tax proposal.

Sep 17, 2018

We expected the war on terror to unite us. What went wrong?

9/11 made Americans put their differences aside. Obviously, it didn’t last.

Sep 10, 2018

Elon Musk’s real problem

His long-term bet on one kind of car is backfiring.

Sep 7, 2018

The case that highlights Kavanaugh’s capacity for judicial restraint

His opinion on Obamacare’s individual mandate provides hope that he understands the costs — legal and, yes, political — of precipitous judicial action.