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Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. She reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. She was recently assigned to cover the Democratic primaries in the 2008 election. She also reports for the magazine on the conflicts over economic and domestic policies and priorities on Capitol Hill as well as the war in Iraq. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com. Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, “The McLaughlin Group,” and a political analyst for the Fox News Network. Playing herself as a member of the McLaughlin Group, she has appeared in several films, including “Independence Day,” “Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania,” and "Dave," as well as the CBS series, “Murphy Brown.” Clift's latest book, Founding Sisters, (2003) tells the story of the long struggle for passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. The book meshes with the HBO movie “Iron Jawed Angels,” starring Hillary Swank and Anjelica Houston, which debuted in 2004. Clift and her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, who was the Washington columnist for the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, co-authored the book Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling (Scribner 2000), which... Next

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