Kevin Sullivan

Washington, D.C.

Associate editor covering national and international affairs

Education: University of New Hampshire, BA; Georgetown University, Japanese, 1994-1995; John S. Knight Fellowship, Stanford University, Spanish, 1999-2000

Kevin Sullivan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning associate editor for The Washington Post. He was a Post foreign correspondent for 14 years, then served as chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and features editor. He has reported from more than 75 countries on six continents. Sullivan and his wife, Mary Jordan, were The Post's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. They won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the Mexican criminal justice system. They, with Post photographers, were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for I
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As Jimmy Carter nears 100, he is buoyed by Harris’s run for president

As Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday approaches on Oct. 1, he is talking more and delighting in the momentum behind Vice President Kamala Harris, his family said.

September 6, 2024
The Plains Depot in Plains, Ga., seen last year, was the center for Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976.

Carter’s next potential milestone: First former president to see 100

Jimmy Carter has been in hospice care for 16 months, but he continues to eat well and defy the odds as his 100th birthday approaches.

June 22, 2024
Busts of President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter at the lobby of the visitor’s center at the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in Plains, Ga.

Rosalynn Carter buried near the Georgia home that she built with Jimmy

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died this month at 96, was buried near the Plains, Ga., house she and Jimmy Carter built in 1961.

November 29, 2023

Dreams dying in a Texas city where immigrants fought for an education

Undocumented people who came to the U.S. as children are seeing their ambitions thwarted amid legal uncertainty, despite public support.

November 21, 2023

With Rosalynn’s passing, Jimmy Carter faces life alone

The Carters, who met as small children in Plains, Ga., were married for 77 years. Friends say it is ‘hard to imagine one without the other.’

November 19, 2023
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter hold hands as they walk toward their home in Plains, Ga., on Aug. 4, 2018.

Rosalynn Carter, first lady who championed mental health, dies at 96

She sat in on Cabinet meetings of her husband, Jimmy Carter, advised on policy issues and pushed Congress to pass mental health legislation.

November 19, 2023

Amid mass shooting manhunt, Mainers are jittery, stoic — and often armed

Residents sheltered in place while businesses and schools were closed as authorities hunted for the man suspected in the Lewiston, Maine, mass killing.

October 26, 2023
People depart a reunification center early Thursday at Auburn Middle School, in Auburn, Maine, after shootings in Lewiston.

Illinois Democrats drew new maps. The changes pushed the GOP to the right.

Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the U.S. House speakership reflected a push toward the fringe caused in part by gerrymandered districts. The congressional map in Illinois offers a prime example.

October 7, 2023

Tenn. lawmakers refused to act on guns. A GOP mother is still pushing.

Melissa Alexander says Covenant parents stood up to a GOP supermajority and lost, but this is the moment when ‘things started to change.’

August 30, 2023
Tennessee state Rep. Rebecca Alexander (R), left, comforts Covenant School parent Melissa Alexander (no relation) after a House subcommittee meeting during a special session of the state legislature.

She’s a Republican gun owner. Now she’s pleading with GOP lawmakers for change.

Her son survived an attack that killed three schoolmates and three adults. She is among thousands of brand-new activists who are pressing the Tennessee legislature to pass stricter gun laws during an upcoming special session.

August 21, 2023
Kathy Chambers, left, a longtime legislative policy analyst, walks in the Tennessee Capitol with Alexander (in white shirt), and, from left, Elaine Eisinger, Becky Hansen and Sarah Shoop Neumann.