Mark george will biography

American political commentator (born )

This article is about the journalist.

Mark george will biography

For the golfer, see George Will (golfer).

George Frederick Will (born May 4, ) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for The Washington Post on a regular basis, and provides commentary for NewsNation.^[1] In , The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America".^[2][3] Will won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in ^[4]

A former member of the Republican Party, Will was a close ally of Ronald Reagan during his presidential campaign in He assisted Reagan with debate preparation, and was later falsely accused by former President Jimmy Carter of providing Reagan with a top secret briefing book in a scandal known as Debategate, an allegation Carter later retracted.

In later years, he became a critic of Republican politicians, including Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich,