Decision 2008: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? Speakers include E.J. Dionne Jr., Brian Kelly, Charles Krauthammer, Maralee Schwartz, and Ramesh Ponnuru. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer moderates.
Speakers discuss the current political climate in the United States and predict what may happen in the coming election year.
Bio
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer is an American journalist and author. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show Late Edition. Blitzer previously hosted Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by The Situation Room.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. spent fourteen years with the New York Times, reporting on state and local government,
national politics, and from around the world, including stints in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. The Los Angeles Times praised his coverage of the Vatican as the best in two decades.
In 1990, Dionne joined the Washington Post as a reporter, covering national politics. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991. The book, which Newsday called "a classic in American political history," won the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was a National Book Award nominee.
Dionne began his op-ed column for the Post in 1993, and it is syndicated to more than 100 other newspapers. He has been a regular commentator on politics on television and radio.
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly is an editor for U.S. News & World Report.
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for the Washington Post.
Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru is the Senior Editor at the National Review. Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15, he went to Princeton University, where he earned an B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude.
He is of Asian Indian descent and has converted to Roman Catholicism. He is married to April Ponnuru.
Maralee Schwartz
Maralee Schwartz is a former Deputy Business Editor and National Political Editor for The Washington Post.