Aug 17 Four Years Later, Artur Davis Breaks Through By Gwen Ifill Artur Davis listens to an audience question during a speech Sunday to Fredericksburg Young Republicans in Virginia. Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images. When I set out to write a book several years ago about a… Continue reading
Aug 03 Gwen’s Take: Who We Are and How We Vote – Connecting the Dots Paul Taylor, the executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, has long experience explaining why things happen. When we chatted on the PBS NewsHour this week, the subject was the widening chasm of economic segregation. It was… Continue reading
Jul 27 Gwen’s Take: Bill Raspberry, 1935-2012 I wasn't exactly wet behind the ears when I arrived at The Washington Post in 1984, but it was close. There was a wall of glass offices on the north side of the newsroom. When I was not laboring… Continue reading
Jul 20 Gwen’s Take: The Search for Mr. (or Ms.) Right By Gwen Ifill I am about to break a promise I made to you. I said this would be a safe space, one that would not turn itself over to rank speculation about the vice presidential sweepstakes. But the candidates for president have… Continue reading
Jul 13 Gwen’s Take: Cheers and Jeers At the NAACP Convention (And Why Candidates Like Them Both) By Gwen Ifill People listen to Mitt Romney address the NAACP annual convention in Houston Wednesday. Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GettyImages You have probably already heard that they booed Mitt Romney and cheered Joe Biden at the NAACP convention in Houston, Texas this week. Continue reading
Jul 05 Gwen’s Take: Our Messy Liberties, Then and Now John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence On the Fourth of July, I poured a cup of coffee and started my day reading the Declaration of Independence at my kitchen table. Out loud. You should try it. It's one… Continue reading
Jun 29 Gwen’s Take: Washington’s 100-Degree Day of Contempt, Constitutionality By Gwen Ifill Photo by Taylor Weidman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images I can say quite honestly that Thursday was among the most dramatic days I've ever seen unfold in Washington. Understanding that I was too young to witness the Kennedy funeral… Continue reading
Jun 22 How One Orchard Owner Took On the Nation’s Divisive Politics By Gwen Ifill Greg Clement saved the Brunswick, Ohio apple orchard and restaurant he now owns from foreclosure last year. He grew up there and decided to use his experience launching a successful software firm to save a piece of his childhood. So… Continue reading
Jun 14 Gwen’s Take: Dearth of Civility in the Public Square Flash back with me to sixth grade recess. A bit of taunting that turns into a little shoving and trash talking. Next thing you know, a circle of children are egging you on, chanting: "Fight! Fight! Fight!" What… Continue reading
Jun 08 Ifill | Election 2012: All the Bright and Shiny Objects By Gwen Ifill I have become an excellent tea-leaf reader this spring. As I watch college graduates cross the stage on commencement day -- teetering in new heels, arms outstretched to grasp their hard-earned diplomas -- I study the terror in their eyes. Continue reading