Alexander Burns

Alexander Burns

Alexander Burns is a senior political reporter for POLITICO. During the 2012 campaign, he co-authored POLITICO’s Burns and Haberman blog, which was widely recognized as one of the authoritative resources on the presidential election. Prior to that, Burns created the daily Morning Score political tip sheet and edited the POLITICO44 page. A graduate of Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Political Review, Burns has appeared on television and radio as a political analyst and has been a guest speaker at New York University, the University of Kansas’s Dole Institute and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, among other schools.

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Recent Stories by Alexander Burns

  1. 1
    DNC hits GOP on Ukraine 'hypocrisy'

    3/7/14 7:19 AM EST

  2. 2
    GOP up-and-comers seize CPAC spotlight

    3/7/14 5:09 AM EST

  3. 3
    Mystery man: Ukraine's U.S. fixer

    3/5/14 5:01 AM EST

  4. 4
    Cochran to launch first 2014 ads

    3/3/14 9:02 PM EST

  5. 5
    Ukraine: The D.C. battle that wasn't

    3/3/14 5:02 AM EST

  6. 6
    Childers to run for Senate in Miss.

    2/28/14 3:30 PM EST

  7. 7
    How biz went 'DEFCON 1' in Arizona

    2/27/14 6:17 PM EST

  8. 8
    Planned Parenthood's 2014 plan

    2/26/14 5:36 PM EST

  9. 9
    Gardner to run for Senate in Colo.

    2/26/14 4:41 PM EST

  10. 10
    Dem govs: Obama needs to sell ACA

    2/25/14 5:03 AM EST