Oct 17 Diving Into The Disconnect By Gwen Ifill Gwen Ifill visits both sides of the chasm while reporting on a tossup Senate race in Colorado one day and from inside the halls at the Treasury Department the next. Continue reading
Oct 10 Gwen's Take: Time flies as does the news By Gwen Ifill One of the best features of my career is that I have gotten to meet and work with some of the most stellar people in the business. From Tim Russert and Jim Lehrer to Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Mitchell and Judy… Continue reading
Oct 03 Gwen'sTake: After 'After Ferguson' By Gwen Ifill Our PBS town hall meeting, “America After Ferguson,” was one of the most remarkable journalistic experiences of my career, so I was thrilled to see how it resonated with our viewing audience. Continue reading
Sep 26 Gwen's Take: After Ferguson - What I Learned By Gwen Ifill When PBS first decided to come to Missouri to dig a bit beneath the surface, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Would anyone still be talking about Ferguson a month later? What I discovered at the town… Continue reading
Sep 12 Gwen's Take: A strategy in four points By Gwen Ifill I found myself chuckling aloud at the otherwise most unremarkable line in President Obama's Wednesday night address to the nation. "This is our strategy," he intoned. Then he ticked off four points. It was hard not to believe the leader… Continue reading
Aug 29 Gwen's Take: Getting to 2016 by surviving 2014 By Gwen Ifill It's been a runaway treadmill of a summer. If it hasn't been protests in the Midwest, it's been planes dropping out of the sky in Ukraine. If it hasn't been rockets and missiles raining down in the Middle East, it… Continue reading
Aug 15 Gwen's Take: The optics of a national crisis By Gwen Ifill In moments like this, optics matter. Remember the photograph of President George W. Bush gazing passively from a plane that flew over, but did not land, on the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast in 2005? That was damaging. Continue reading
Aug 08 Gwen's Take: The U.S.-Africa Summit: Of opportunities and setbacks By Gwen Ifill African and American leaders prepare for the third and final plenary meeting of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington August 6. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images They arrived on jet planes. They clogged downtown Washington, D.C. streets with… Continue reading
Aug 01 Gwen's Take: Who knew? Bipartisanship isn't dead By Gwen Ifill This space is often taken up with doom and gloom, as we watch Washington and the nation split itself into irrevocable ideological halves. We watched it play out again this week on Capitol Hill, when Republicans in the House voted… Continue reading
Jul 25 Gwen's Take: Caroline Kennedy and life on the back burner By Gwen Ifill The Obama administration has so many urgent items on its agenda, it is inevitable that other things get shoved aside, including nuclear standoffs and territorial disputes on the other side of the world. Into this world of multiple distractions has… Continue reading