Charles Krauthammer
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Charles Krauthammer (/ˈkraʊt.hæmər/; March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) was an American syndicated Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, author, political commentator, and former physician. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide.[1]
Charles Krauthammer | |
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Born | (1950-03-13)March 13, 1950 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
Died | June 21, 2018(2018-06-21) (aged 68) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Education | McGill University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford Harvard Medical School (MD) |
Occupation | Political columnist |
Notable credit(s) | The New Republic (1981-2011) The Washington Post (1985-present) The Weekly Standard Time (1983) Inside Washington (1990-2013) |
Spouse | Robyn Trethewey (m. 1974) |
Website | www |
Krauthammer was paralyzed from the waist down due to a diving board accident while at Harvard University.[2]
He was a weekly panelist on PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it finished in December 2013. He is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a nightly panelist on Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier.
On June 8, 2018, Krauthammer announced that he had been suffering from small intestine cancer the "past ten months."[3] He died two weeks later on June 21 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 68.[4]