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American journalist (born )

Eugene Joseph Dionne Jr. () is an American journalist, political commentator, and long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post.

Eugene Dionne - Georgetown University

He is also a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator.

Early life and education

Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts.

He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugène J. Dionne, a dentist.^[1][2] He is of French-Canadian descent.^[3] He attended Portsmouth Abbey School (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Dionne graduated in with a B.A., summa cum laude, in social studies from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and