Drew Goins

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Newsletter writer and editor in the Opinions section

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA in journalism and Hispanic linguistics

Drew Goins is a newsletter writer and editor in the Opinions section. He came to the paper as a summer intern on the news multiplatform desk in 2016 and worked on the news side for two years before coming to Opinions. Prior to The Post, he edited for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, as well as the U.S. Department of Education.
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We will discover extraterrestrial life within 25 years

Plus: Another potential Trump assassination attempt. Iranian women’s revolution isn’t over.

September 17, 2024
From left, Tiffany Kataria, Bertrand Mennesson, Vanessa Bailey and Kim Aaron at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 1. (Jay L. Clendenin for The Washington Post)

A brief defense of string theory

Plus: Laura Loomer. North Carolina in play. The bad “Reagan” biopic.

September 16, 2024
(Washington Post illustration; images by David Silverman/Getty Images, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

How Fox News sane-washes Trump

Plus: Taylor Swift’s clear message. The deficit. HBO’s “Industry.”

September 13, 2024
Fox News host Sean Hannity speaks with members of the media before last week's presidential debate in Philadelphia. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

The ‘America First’ debate is raging again

Plus: Swapping capital cities. Bad gun laws.

September 12, 2024
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of his chief critics, aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Harris won the debate. How much will that matter?

Plus: Barney the purple dinosaur, post-rehab. Republicans are bad for insurance rates.

September 11, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris responds to a question during her debate with former president Donald Trump in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

Have Harris and Trump tried hugging it out?

Plus: America’s highest-rated organization. Mpox resurgence. The worst writer ever.

September 10, 2024

How to keep your butt above your socks (and other lessons from Maine)

Plus: A national-vs.-local primary. Doing more for kids with the care economy.

September 9, 2024
A giant boulder looms over the side trail to the Safford Notch campsite in the Bigelow range, on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

A thousand feet underground, a hero you never heard of

Plus: Near-Earth asteroids. Poisoned college football.

September 4, 2024
Christopher Mark at a mine in Alabama. (Courtesy of Christopher Mark)

Live simply and lovingly. You’ll die just fine.

Plus: Western restrictions on Ukrainian weapons. Setting Harris and Trump side by side.

September 3, 2024
(Andrea Levy/The Washington Post)

Vladimir Kara-Murza’s wild ride to freedom

Plus: democracy-blocking judges. Germany’s far right. Apprenticeships.

August 29, 2024
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza attends a news conference in Bonn, Germany, on Aug. 2 after being freed in a prisoner swap. (Leon Kuegeler/Reuters)