Paul Glastris

Paul Glastris is an American journalist and political columnist. Glastris is the current editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and was President Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter from September 1998 to the end of his presidency in early 2001. Before 1998, Glastris was a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report.

Education

Glastris has a B.A. in history and an M.A.in radio from Northwestern University.

Career

Glastris is a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center in Washington, DC. While working as a speechwriter for President Clinton, he wrote over 200 speeches on a variety of subjects such as education, health care, and the budget. In 2000, he was also responsible for co-writing the President's address to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles and the State of the Union addresses in 1999 and 2000. In 1999, Glastris traveled with President Clinton to Turkey and Greece and wrote the President's address to Greece. Glastris developed Clinton's "DC Reads this Summer" program. This program "put over 1000 federal employees as volunteer reading tutors in Washington, DC public schools."

Before working as a speechwriter, Glastris was a correspondent and editor for U.S. News & World Report. He spent ten years working for U.S. News & World Report. From 1995-1996, he worked as Bureau Chief in Berlin, Germany where he was responsible for covering the former Yugoslavia in the final months of the Bosnia War. He also wrote stories while staying in Germany, Russia, Greece, and Turkey.

Glastris also covered the Midwest from U.S. News & World Report's Chicago bureau. He did this during two presidential campaigns, the Mississippi floods of 1993, and the rise of the Michigan Militia.

He was an editor for The Washington Monthly from 1985-1986. He was a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at New America Foundation from 2008-2010.

Family

Glastris is married to his wife Kukula Kapoor Glastris who used to work for U.S. News. Together they have two children named Hope and Adam. Glastris and his family live in Washington, D.C.

External links

• Washington Monthly bio
• Video conversations and debates Glastris has taken part in on Bloggingheads.tv