A journalist for 35 years, 30 in Washington, Morton Kondracke has covered nearly every phase of American politics and foreign policy and has done so in newspapers and magazines, TV and radio.
Mort is currently executive editor and columnist for Roll Call, Capitol Hill's feisty independent newspaper. Kondracke writes a twice-weekly national column Pennsylvania Avenue, covering politics, White House congressional relations, domestic and foreign policy. The column is syndicated nationally in 400 newspapers through United Features Syndicate and The Newspaper Enterprise Association.
Morton Kondracke is a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel since 1996. He serves as a panelist on the All Stars, Special Report with Brit Hume and currently co-hosts the weekly political show, The Beltway Boys. He published Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease (Ballantine), which became a New York Times, Washington Post best-seller in 2002.
From 1982 to 1998, Kondracke was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, the nation's most raucous, penetrating, and highly rated public affairs television program, seen on 350 stations nationwide. He has served as Executive Director of The New Republic, and was Washington Bureau Chief for Newsweek. Kondracke has been a panelist on This Week with David Brinkley, Meet the Press, Crossfire, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Voice of America. He was a panelist for the 1984 Reagan Mondale Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy.
Kondracke has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and United Features Syndicate and written articles in the New York Times magazine and book review, The Economist, Washingtonian, and The Weekly Standard.
Morton Kondracke was a commentator on National Public Radio and a talk show host for WRC AM Washington.
He is a board member of the Parkinson's Action Network, a member of the Freedom House, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.