Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has reported on national and international issues from Washington for more than 25 years. His weekly Op-Ed column delivers original reporting and analysis on a wide range of national issues.

McManus is a four-time winner of the National Press Club’s Edwin Hood Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy, most recently in 2004 for articles on the U.S. occupation of Iraq. He has also won Georgetown University’s Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting and other awards. From 1996 to 2008, he was The Times’ Washington bureau chief, leading a team of 40 reporters and editors that won recognition as one of the nation’s best news operations.

McManus graduated from Stanford University in 1974 and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Brussels. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.

He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. with his wife, Paula Copeland McManus; they have three grown daughters.