First Year 2017: Can Donald Trump get government working?

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast: Virginia, February 12, 2017/Nationally, February 15, 2015

E.J. Dionne writes about politics in a twice-weekly column for the Washington Post and on the PostPartisan blog. He is also a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a government professor at Georgetown University and a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s This Week and MSNBC. Before joining the Washington Post in 1990 as a political reporter, Dionne spent 14 years at the New York Times. He is the author of six books: Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism-From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond (2016), Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right (2008), Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge (2004), They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era (1996), and Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee.  A book signing will follow his appearance.