November’s election was surely Micheál Martin’s last as party leader – that’s enormously liberating for a politician. Simon Harris has no such latitude. No longer ...

Liz Goodwin is a Congress reporter for The Washington Post. Goodwin joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where she covered national politics since 2018, most recently serving as Washington ...

Becky Krystal is the recipes editor for Washington Post Food, following a six-year stint as a staff writer and recipe developer. After several years as a general assignment reporter in Virginia ...

Jacqueline Alemany is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. Previously, she covered congressional investigations and played a central role in The Post's coverage of various Trump probes ...

Education: Washington University in St. Louis, BS in Systems Science & Engineering; Washington University in St. Louis, MS in Finance; French Culinary Institute, Classic Culinary Arts Aaron ...

Jeff Stein is the White House economics reporter for The Washington Post. Since joining The Washington Post in November 2017, he has covered the Republican tax law; the government shutdown ...

Ron Charles writes about books and publishing for The Washington Post. For a dozen years, he enjoyed teaching American literature and critical theory in the Midwest. Before moving to the District ...

Michael Birnbaum is a White House reporter for The Washington Post, covering the Trump presidency. He previously covered national security and diplomacy from Washington and served in Europe for ...

Barry Svrluga came to The Washington Post in 2003 after working at newspapers in Corning, N.Y.; Portland, Maine; and Raleigh, N.C. At those stops, he covered topics including NASCAR, high school ...

Education: University of Illinois, B.S. in communications and M.S. in communications Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1978 and has been involved in ...

Art directors at The Washington Post commissioned work in 2024 from hundreds of artists, who illustrated a variety of topics, from politics and climate to lifestyle and sports. The following ...

Welcome to the first Post Next 50 list. Our aim is simple — to introduce our readers to a fascinating group of people whom we expect to make an impact this year. To compile the list, we tapped ...