A journalistic trailblazer, Eleanor Clift takes her audiences into the corridors of power for an insider’s view of Washington. Providing tested journalistic insights on the issues and intrigues that surround our political process, Clift gives audiences her take on today’s headline news including a look at President Obama, Congress and the changes wrought by the 2010 midterm elections. Drawing on her reputation as one of Washington’s most trusted political analysts, Clift tells the stories behind the stories, gleaned from her years building relationships and sources with the nation’s key political players.
Whether giving her take on health care reform, how President Obama is living up to his promises or what the role of old media is in a new media world, Clift always cuts to the quick and gives audiences her keen perspective on today’s most important issues. Clift is a contributing editor at Newsweek and author of three books, including her latest book Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics, which examines the debate over the right to die through the lens of her personal experience with the loss of her husband. Clift is a longtime panelist on the weekly public affairs show The McLaughlin Group and she also provides commentary for FOX News.
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Eleanor Clift on Today’s News
One of Washington’s best known and most respected journalists, Eleanor Clift lends her thoughtful analysis on today most pressing issues including:
Politics
Grading President Obama: From style to substance, is he keeping his promise of change? How did his agenda affect the 2010 midterm elections, and what will it mean in 2012?
Women and Politics
From suffrage to sexism, Clift looks at the obstacles that remain and how to shatter the last glass ceiling.
Healthcare
With reform on the horizon, Clift can talk about the politics of healthcare as well as offer a personal perspective on end of life care and the choices before us individually and as a society. Doctors can tell us what we can do; they can’t tell us what we should do.
First Ladies
Michelle Obama fully understands the power of her platform, and she is using it to convey the priorities and values she shares with her husband. An examination of the role and how Obama, a Princeton and Harvard-educated lawyer, is navigating the line between style and substance.
Media
The shrinking role of the mainstream media and its impact on politics. Can newspapers survive? Does anybody under 30 care if they don’t? Barack Obama won the presidency in part because he understood the new tools of communication and mobilized them to his advantage.
Two Weeks of Life: The Intersection of Medicine and Morality
Eleanor Clift watched her husband, journalist Tom Brazaitis, dying of cancer at home at the same time as she was commenting on the debate over Terri Schiavo, who was dying in a Florida hospice. The two passed away within a day of each other. Clift’s book Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics alternates between these two stories to provide a moving commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America. Clift will provide audiences with:
- Insight into the struggle of how and when to end life
- How America has changed since the Schiavo case
- What individuals can do when facing the same choices
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