Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are longtime Washington journalists who write about the intersection of politics and the world. They are authors most recently of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, a New York Times bestseller that was named a book of the year by numerous reviewers and publications.   

Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and an MSNBC political analyst. He has covered the last five presidents for The Times and The Washington Post and is the author or co-author of six books, including Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, selected as one of the Top Ten Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review, and The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, a New York Times bestseller. He attended Oberlin College in Ohio.

Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of its weekly “Letter from Biden’s Washington,” as well as a global affairs analyst for CNN. She previously was the editor of POLITICO and founder of the award-winning POLITICO Magazine. Before that, she was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine following a long stint at The Post, where she was Assistant Managing Editor for National News.  Publications she has edited have won multiple National Magazine Awards. She graduated from Harvard University.

Together Baker and Glasser were Moscow Bureau Chiefs for The Post and authors of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution. They live in Washington and plan to publish a book on the Trump presidency in 2022.

The talk will be moderated by Bill Scanlan, interviewer extraordinaire. Bill has been a regular host of C-SPAN’s signature morning program - Washington Journal, for 15 years. He has interviewed hundreds of guests from the world of politics and government. He’s also been a regular host for American History TV and anchored numerous C-SPAN special programs. He was a contributing announcer for C-SPAN’s Peabody Award-winning American Presidents series.