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Ron Brownstein is the nat’l affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He writes a weekly column on politics and policy as well as regular pieces for the newspaper’s Sunday Current section. Previously he served as the Times’ nat’l pol. corr. He has been with the paper since Jan. ’90, except for seven months in ’98 when he was at U.S. News. His book “The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America” will be published this fall.