Sep 27 Gwen's Take: The Threat Matrix By Gwen Ifill From Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill; from the United Nations to Tehran ... everybody seems to be talking tough. Hassan Rouhani, the suddenly accessible new President of Iran, declared in more than one venue this week that he is a… Continue reading
Sep 20 Gwen's Take: The Art of the Showdown By Gwen Ifill First rule: Don't blink. Someone will have to, but not just yet. From Ted Cruz and John Boehner to Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani, lawmakers, politicians, dictators and future Presidents have all perfected the art of digging their heels into… Continue reading
Sep 13 Gwen's Take: slippery slopes and other risky things By Gwen Ifill It's tough enough to govern effectively when the ground underfoot is stable. But take a tricky issue and angle it uphill, and getting things done gets a lot more complicated. Continue reading
Aug 30 Gwen's Take: War and Peace and the President On Wednesday, President Barack Obama sat down with NewsHour's Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza It never gets old slipping inside the gates at Pennsylvania Avenue and walking up the path to the White… Continue reading
Aug 23 'My Dad heard the call to action.' Gwen Ifill on her father and Martin Luther King By Gwen Ifill Somewhere in that sea of optimistic humanity on August 28, 1963, was my father. He heard Dr. King's call to action. That’s what his children heard too. Continue reading
Aug 16 Gwen's Summer Reading List Watch Gwen's Take: Summer Reading on PBS. See more from… Continue reading
Aug 09 Making History: Turning a Page at the PBS NewsHour I am in the business of slapping together what we call the first draft of history every day, so it has been a little jarring to suddenly be making history myself. But that's what Judy Woodruff and I will… Continue reading
Aug 02 Gwen's Take: Toes in the Sand, Eyes on the Page It is true that when I want a little getaway reading, I normally download or pack a nice piece of fiction. But this year, I couldn't resist doing a deep dive into three really good books about Washington. It… Continue reading
Jul 19 Gwen's Take: Making Washington's Abstractions Real I went to a movie a few weeks ago where we were required to don 3-D glasses in order to view the thing properly. But periodically, I would take my glasses off to see what the screen looked like without… Continue reading
Jul 11 Gwen's Take: Once Again to the Split-Screen This week's Time magazine cover landed on my desk just as I was puzzling through another week of split-screen politics in the nation's capital. The divided image was of a crowded Tahrir Square in Cairo. With the word Egypt in… Continue reading