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Dana Milbank, NOTUS Columnist

Dana Milbank

Columnist

Dana Milbank is a political columnist for The Washington Sun.

Before coming to The Sun, he was a longtime op-ed columnist with the Washington Post whose column appeared in more than 400 newspapers. He is a frequent political commentator on television and radio and a New York Times bestselling author. His five books on politics include “Fools on the Hill,” “The Destructionists” and “Homo Politicus.”

A graduate of Yale University, he began his career with the Wall Street Journal, serving as a congressional and foreign correspondent. After two years as a senior editor of the New Republic, he joined the Post’s Style section as a political writer. Later, as a White House reporter for the Post, he won the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Beckman award for “overall excellence in White House coverage.”

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