Paul Glastris
The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
Paul Glastris is the editor in chief of the Washington Monthly. From September 1998 to January, 2001, he was special assistant and senior speechwriter to President Bill Clinton. He wrote over 200 speeches for the president, on subjects ranging from education to health care to the budget. He co-wrote the president's address to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles in August 2000, and contributed to his 1999 and 2000 State of the Union addresses.
Before joining the White House, Mr. Glastris spent 10 years as a correspondent and editor at U.S. News & World Report. There, he conceived of and edited two end-of-the-year issues consisting of "solution-oriented" journalism in 1997 and 1998. As Berlin bureau chief, he covered the former Yugoslavia during the final months of the Bosnian War, and earlier covered the Midwest from the magazine’s Chicago bureau. Mr. Glastris has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate and other publications. He has been a guest on the Colbert Report, NPR's Talk of the Nation and the Diane Rehm Show, and is a frequent commentator for the BBC. Mr. Glastris holds a Bachelor's degree in History and a Masters in Radio, TV, and Film from Northwestern University.
His work as a Schwartz Fellow will focus on the often overlooked mechanics of government, and the extent to which federal agencies and departments fulfill their avowed missions.
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