Richard Cohen is a nation­al­ly syn­di­cat­ed colum­nist for The Wash­ing­ton Post, where he has cov­ered nation­al pol­i­tics and for­eign affairs since 1976. He has writ­ten for numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The New Repub­lic, The Nation, Esquire GQ, and The New York Review of Books. He has received the Sig­ma Delta Chi and Wash­ing­ton-Bal­ti­more News­pa­per Guild Awards for his inves­tiga­tive reporting.