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David Ignatius

Opinion writerWashington, D.C.

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Donald Trump has pushed the limits of the common sense behind the First Amendment.

  • Apr 7, 2016

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is connecting innovation with the market.

  • Apr 5, 2016

Despite signs of a backlash against President Xi Jinping, his hold on power appears firm.

  • Mar 31, 2016

If sanctions are applied indiscriminately, foreigners will do business outside U.S. markets.

  • Mar 29, 2016

Five requirements toward enhanced security structures.

  • Mar 24, 2016

The failure of a U.S.-led coalition to contain the Islamic State has exposed a fragile Europe.

  • Mar 22, 2016

But it’s too early to say whether the moderate opposition is truly expanding its support in rebel-held areas, after several years of decline in the face of attacks by the extremists and Assad’s army.

  • Mar 19, 2016

Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’s protectionist stances would undermine U.S. growth.

  • Mar 17, 2016

China’s moves in the contested area could put the White House on the spot.

  • Mar 15, 2016

Obama’s tone throughout “The Obama Doctrine” is supremely self-confident and weirdly defensive.

  • Mar 15, 2016
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David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column and contributes to the PostPartisan blog. Ignatius has also written eight spy novels: “Bloodmoney” (2011), “The Increment” (2009), “Body of Lies ” (2007), “The Sun King” (1999), “A Firing Offense” (1997), “The Bank of Fear” (1994), “SIRO” (1991), and “Agents of Innocence” (1987). Body of Lies was made into a 2008 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

Ignatius joined The Post in 1986 as editor of its Sunday Outlook section. In 1990 he became foreign editor, and in 1993, assistant managing editor for business news. He began writing his column in 1998 and continued even during a three-year stint as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Earlier in his career, Ignatius was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering at various times the steel industry, the Justice Department, the CIA, the Senate, the Middle East and the State Department.

Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied political theory at Harvard College and economics at Kings College, Cambridge. He lives in Washington with his wife and has three daughters.
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