Richard Cohen is a weekly columnist for The Washington Post, writing on domestic and foreign politics. He is a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions and the author with Jules Witcover of A Heartbeat Away: The Investigation and Resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.

Cohen has received the Sigma Delta Chi and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Awards for his investigative reporting.

Cohen splits his time between Washington, D.C. and New York City.