No. 108 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Columnist and Brookings senior fellow
E. J. Dionne is a journalist and political commentator who was a longtime Washington Post columnist.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where E. J. Dionne's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Argued at the Munk Debates, with Andrew Sullivan, that American democracy was in crisis.
Dionne is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy.
He comments regularly on NPR, MSNBC and PBS.
On the record
2017
October 12, 2017
Formal debateLost the audience vote
Against Newt Gingrich and Kimberley Strassel · Munk Debates, Toronto
E. J. Dionne argued for the motion with Andrew Sullivan. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 3 percent.
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