Dick Polman is a veteran national political columnist and the full-time "Writer in Residence" at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing,

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. He has been on the full-time faculty since 2006. He currently writes about politics weekly at dickpolman.net and is nationally syndicated. He previously was a columnist at ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' and WHYY News, the public media outlet in Philadelphia. Polman grew up in western

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and studied at

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, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Public Affairs, focusing on politics and policy, and served as managing editor of the college newspaper. He was a metro columnist at ''

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'' and, prior to that, he was the founding editor of '' The Hartford Advocate'' before joining ''The Inquirer'' in 1984. As an ''Inquirer'' writer, he covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008

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presidential campaigns. His ''Inquirer'' column ran from 2004 to 2012. His WHYY column ran from 2012 to 2019. He has been described by the ''

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'' as one of the United States' top political reporters, and by

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as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation."

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