Terence Samuel

Terence Samuel covers Congress for U.S. News & World Report. Before joining the magazine, Samuel was, for three years, a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he wrote on a wide range of topics, including congressional politics, urban policy and development, welfare, race and affirmative action. Previously, Samuel spent a decade at the Philadelphia Inquirer, including four years as a New York-based national correspondent. He covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the explosion of TWA Flight 800 and state and national politics in New York. He returned to Philadelphia in 1996 as the newspaper’s Banking Correspondent. Samuel began his journalistic career in 1984 at the Roanoke Times & World News, where at various times he covered courts, police, schools and business. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Campus. His research project examined the political parity that defines the current national debate, whether it is an aid or a menace to our traditional notions of democracy and what changes can be made.