Eugene Robinson (born 1955) is a newspaper columnist and assistant managing editor for The Washington Post. His columns are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. In his columns he generally espouses left-wing views, and often criticizes President George W. Bush for his perceived domestic- and foreign-policy failures, especially the Iraq War. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), was founded in 1975 by 44 men and women in Washington, D.C. Headquartered at the University of Maryland, College Park and with 3300 members, it is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation. ...

Robinson was born and grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and attended Orangeburg High School. He went to college at the University of Michigan, where in his senior year he was co-editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, the Michigan Daily. Downtown Orangeburg, South Carolina downtown Orangeburg Orangeburg City Hall/Stevenson Municipal Auditorium Orangeburg, also known as The Garden City, is a city located in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan. ...

In 1976 he began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the trial of publishing heiress Patty Hearst. Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ... Hearst posing for a Symbionese Liberation Army publicity photo Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress and occasional actress. ...

He joined the Washington Post in 1980, and worked his way up the ranks, starting as a city hall reporter, then becoming assistant city editor, city editor, South America correspondent, London bureau chief, foreign editor, and, most recently, assistant managing editor. He began writing opinion columns for the paper in 2005. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Robinson currently lives with a wife and two sons in Arlington, Virginia. Arlington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia (which calls itself a commonwealth), directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. By an act of Congress July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac was returned to Virginia effective in 1847 As of 2000...

Books

• (1999) Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race
• (2004) Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution

External links

• Biography at Washington Post Writers Group
• Washington Post columns archive
• Eugene Robinson at Discourse DB