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Paul Glastris is the editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center in Washington, DC.
From September 1998 to January, 2001, he was a special assistant and senior
speechwriter to the 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. In November, 1999, Glastris traveled with Clinton to
Turkey and Greece and wrote the President's landmark address to the Greek
people. Glastris created the President's "DC Reads this Summer" program,
which has put over 1000 federal employees as volunteer reading tutors in
Washington, DC public schools. He also promoted several administration policy
initiatives, including a new food stamp rule that allows the working poor to
own cars.
Before joining the White House, Glastris spent ten 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 Bureau Chief in Berlin, Germany (1995/1996), he covered
the former Yugoslavia during final months of the Bosnian War, and wrote
stories from Germany, Russia, Greece, and Turkey. Prior to that, he covered
the Midwest from the magazine's Chicago bureau during two presidential
campaigns, the Mississippi floods of 1993, and the rise of the Michigan
Militia. He produced profiles of Midwest mayors, governors and other
personalities, from Jesse Jackson to then-Presidential candidate Bill
Clinton.
From 1985 to 1986, Glastris was an editor of The Washington Monthly. He
holds a bachelor's degree in history and a masters in radio, TV and film from
Northwestern University. He is married to Kukula Kapoor Glastris, formerly
of U.S. News. They live in Washington, DC with their two children, Hope and
Adam.
You can email him at glastris@washingtonmonthly.com.
Washington Monthly articles by Paul Glastris:
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