Princeton Alumni Weekly: Goin' Backstory

The Reunions panel “PAW-litics: Inside the Presidential Campaign,” sponsored by the Princeton Alumni Weekly, featured nine alumni journalists discussing and debating key points of the 2012 race for the White House. Our special podcast presentation of the event includes the entire conversation. The panelists were Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81, editor and publisher of The Nation; Kathy Kiely ’77, managing editor of the Sunlight Foundation; Nick Confessore ’98, a reporter at The New York Times; Rick Klein ’98, senior Washington editor at ABC News; Ramesh Ponnuru ’95, senior editor of the National Review; Ryan T. Anderson ’04, editor of Public Discourse; Jennifer Epstein ’08, a reporter at Politico; Richard Just ’01, former editor of The New Republic; and Louis Jacobson ’92, a senior writer for PolitiFact. Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach ’82 moderated the discussion.For more Web Exclusives, visit paw.princeton.edu.