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Fred Hiatt

Editorial Page EditorWashington, D.C.

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The insufferable candidate is someone you’d avoid at a party.

  • Aug 14, 2016

The U.S. steps back from the world stage, and the consensus for leadership dissolves

  • Jul 31, 2016

  • Jul 28, 2016

How do they live with their decisions?

  • Jul 21, 2016

A President Trump could bring out the worst in all of us.

  • Jul 14, 2016

The presumptive nominee enjoys the adulation of the campaign, but does he really want to serve?

  • Jun 19, 2016

Donald Trump’s enablers have signed up for scrutiny, like it or not.

  • Jun 5, 2016

The president’s re-escalation in the region is further proof that disengagement was a mistake.

  • May 22, 2016

The reality-television star is underwater. But the status quo is even less popular.

  • May 8, 2016

All Angela knew, at first, was that her father uncharacteristically had stopped communicating.

  • Apr 24, 2016
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About
Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of The Post. He writes editorials for the newspaper and a biweekly column that appears on Mondays. He also contributes to the PostPartisan blog. Hiatt has been with The Post since 1981. Earlier, he worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and the Washington Star. At The Post, he covered government, politics, development and other issues in Fairfax County and statewide in Virginia, and later military and national security affairs on the newspaper’s national staff. From 1987 to 1990, he and his wife were co-bureau chiefs of The Post’s Tokyo bureau, and from 1991 to 1995 they served as correspondents and co-bureau chiefs in Moscow. He joined the editorial board in 1996 and became editorial page editor in 2000. He is the author of “The Secret Sun: A Novel of Japan,” which was published in 1992, as well as two books for children, “If I Were Queen of the World” (1997) and “Baby Talk ” (1999). He also wrote “Nine Days” (2013), a novel for young adults. 
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