As Executive Editor and Columnist of Roll Call, Capitol Hill's feisty, independent, twice-weekly newspaper, Morton Kondracke brings a unique perspective to the most timely issues of our day, as well as to the political dynamics between the White House and Capitol Hill. A journalist for nearly 40 years, 35 in Washington, Mort has covered nearly every phase of American politics and foreign policy, and has done so in newspapers and magazines, on TV and radio. "Pennsylvania Avenue," his twice-weekly column on national politics, White House-Congressional relations, and domestic and foreign policy is syndicated nationally to 400 newspapers. He also writes editorials on Congress for Roll Call.

Known to millions of Americans by his regular appearances on The McLaughlin Group for 16 years, he is now host, along with Fred Barnes, of The Beltway Boys on Fox, where he offers penetrating analysis with liberal doses of humor. Morton Kondracke is also a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel.

In 1994, he received the Washington Post's Crystal Ball Award as the only prognosticator to predict the Republican congressional landslide.

He was formerly the Senior Editor of the New Republic and Washington Bureau Chief for Newsweek magazine.

In addition to being a sought after political pundit, Kondracke is also a tireless advocate for increasing funding of the NIH and the author of The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller, Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease. In this book Kondracke tells the moving tale of his wife's descent into Parkinson's disease and the impact it had on him as a primary caregiver. The Wall Street Journal called it a "story of spiritual and emotional growth."

Mort received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1960 and was a Neiman fellow at Harvard University.