Looking for Your Favorite Ex-Post Columnist? Start Here!
from my scratch pad
As I wrote in “Starting from Scratch,” I left the Washington Post in March 2025. I was not alone. Below you will find a list of the writers who left Post Opinions since Jeff Bezos announced, in late October 2024, that the paper would not be publishing an endorsement for the 2024 presidential election. Some have spoken publicly about their motivations for leaving and some have not; I certainly would not presume to speak for them. But I was proud to be published alongside these commentators, and I thought readers might be as happy as I am to be able to know where their work can be found.
Note: I’m probably missing someone; please let me know and I’ll update. (I am not including anyone who left before fall 2024.)
Danielle Allen is founder of The Renovator and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Karen Attiah writes The Golden Hour.
Perry Bacon writes for The New Republic.
Philip Bump writes “How to Read This Chart.”
Jonathan Capehart is a host at MSNBC.
E.J. Dionne Jr. is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Drew Goins writes for The Atlantic.
Monica Hesse writes criticism for the Style section of the Washington Post.
Robert Kagan is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Charles Lane is a columnist for The Free Press.
Ruth Marcus is a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
Dana Milbank writes for The Washington Post’s Futures department.
Michelle L. Norris hosts the podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen.
Alexandra Petri writes for The Atlantic.
Catherine Rampell is an anchor at MSNBC and an editor at The Bulwark.
Molly Roberts is a senior editor at Lawfare.
Alyssa Rosenberg writes The Shop Around the Corner.
Eugene Robinson is a political analyst at MSNBC and NBC News.
Jennifer Rubin is editor-in-chief of The Contrarian.
Natasha Sarin is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Amanda Shendruk writes Not-Ship, a column about data.
Ann Telnaes’s cartoons can be found at Open Windows.
Bittersweet to have left six months earlier as I saw the tide rising and started to gasp before others. There is life beyond, and plenty of good work to do.