Catherine Rampell

New York, N.Y.

Columnist covering economics, public policy, immigration and politics

Education: Princeton University

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell received the 2021 Online Journalism Award for Commentary and the 2010 Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism, and she is a six-time Gerald Loeb Award finalist. S
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Latest from Catherine Rampell

Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare

A little-noticed but significant decision will protect Americans from "junk" health insurance.

July 11, 2023

How America can exploit China’s brain drain

Chinese professionals and entrepreneurs are streaming to other countries. America should be encouraging them to come here. But we’ve mostly done the opposite.

July 6, 2023

Renewables are saving Texas. Again. So give them their due.

Yet they remain curiously vilified by politicians in the Lone Star State.

July 4, 2023

Biden’s student debt jubilee likely hurt those it intended to help

The fallout from the poorly thought-out program is nothing to be proud of.

June 30, 2023

In a Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage match, the only thing clear is who would lose

Too often, we reward pugilism without principle — and America is the worse for it.

June 27, 2023

It’s almost like the House GOP never cared about deficits after all

After (correctly!) proclaiming that current tax revenues cannot support our existing government, Republicans propose ... cutting virtually everyone's taxes.

June 25, 2023

All’s fair in love, war and beer boycotts

With the Bud Light boycott, the right embraces cancel culture. And why shouldn't they?

June 18, 2023

How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS? Way more than we thought.

New research finds that for each extra dollar the IRS spends auditing wealthy taxpayers, it can collect more than $12 in return.

June 14, 2023

The government needs to measure things. Somehow, that’s controversial.

It should not be a big deal that senators from both parties just agreed to measure something. Yet it is.

June 9, 2023

One reason for the surprise jobs boom? Immigrants are back.

Foreign-born workers and women are punching above their weight in the labor market.

June 2, 2023