Who's Up, Who's Down and What's Really Going On

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, MSNBC political analyst and author of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. He writes a twice-weekly op-ed column on politics and culture for the Washington Post and contributes to the paper's PostPartisan blog. In his three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been a city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper's award-winning Style section. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama's election as the first Black president. 2013 Chamberlin Lecture in Journalism