Morton Kondracke

Member of Editorial Board

A journalist for 35 years, 30 of them in Washington, Morton Kondracke has covered nearly every phase of American politics and foreign policy, and has done so in newspapers and magazines, and on TV and radio. Mort is currently executive editor and columnist for Roll Call, Capitol Hill's feisty independent newspaper, and a coanchor of Fox News's Beltway Boys. He writes a twice-weekly national column "Pennsylvania Avenue," covering politics, White House-congressional relations, domestic and foreign policy. Kondracke has served as Newsweek's Washington Bureau Chief, executive editor for The New Republic, a panelist on This Week with David Brinkley, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and White House Correspondent for the Chicago Sun Times. He was a moderator for American Interests, PBS' serious weekly foreign policy series which was carried on 170 stations, a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered and a contributor to The Economist in London. An occasional panelist on NBC's Meet The Press, CBS' Face the Nation, The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour and CNN's Crossfire, Kondracke has also published several articles in The New York Times, The National Interest, Public Opinion and National Review. Kondracke was a commentator on National Public Radio and a talk show host for WRC-AM Washington. He is a board member of the Parkinson's Action Network, a member of the Freedom House, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.