Dan BalzDan Balz is chief correspondent at the Washington Post and has covered American politics and government for four decades. A native of Freeport, Illinois, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois and spent three ears in the U.S. Army. He is coauthor of Storming the Gates and the New York Times bestseller The Battle for America 2008. He is a regular panelist on PBS's Washington Week and MSNBC's The Daily Rundown. Read More Read Less