Dana Milbank

Dana Timothy Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is an American political reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He has been married since 1993 to Dona Lynn DePasquale. Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US P... more

Dana Timothy Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is an American political reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He has been married since 1993 to Dona Lynn DePasquale. Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office. After Bush won the 2000 election, Karl Rove asked the Washington Post not to assign Milbank to cover White House news. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the US Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication." Milbank writes "Washington Sketch" for the Post, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and... less