Our Political Parties Are Struggling

Peggy Noonan is opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal, where her “Declarations” column has been active since 2000.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. As an NBC News political analyst, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history, and culture, from the book. from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first book, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who have contributed essays on the US presidency to the book “Persons Above All”. Noonan served as a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010, she was awarded the Distinguished Communications Award by the survivors of the Congressional Medal of Honor; The following year, she was chosen by The Week as Columnist of the Year. She was a graduate student at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and taught in the history department at Yale University.

Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson College in Rutherford. She lives in New York City. In November 2016, she was named one of the city’s Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.