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Award-winning political columnist Walter Shapiro is a Special Correspondent for The New Republic. He is the winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award, given by the Society of Professional Journalists, as the best 2010 online columnist for his work for Politics Daily. In recent years, he was the Washington bureau chief for Salon and a political columnist for USA Today and Esquire. Previously, he was on the staffs of Time, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He was also a White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter.