To engage with the controversy of the moment, the Fall 2016 Munk Debate will move the motion: Be it resolved, Donald Trump can make America great again...
Newt Gingrich is the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a New York Times bestselling author, and Time magazine’s 1995 Man of the Year.
Robert Reich has been hailed as one of America’s top ten thought leaders by the Wall Street Journal. He served under three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. He also served on President Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board.
LAURA INGRAHAM is the author of number-one New York Times bestsellers Power to the People and The Obama Diaries. Her syndicated radio talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States and she is the most listened-to woman in political talk radio. Ingraham is a regular contributor on Fox News Channel, as well as the editor-in-chief and founder of LifeZette, a political and lifestyle website. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, and she served as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of the United States.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM is a former two-term governor of Michigan. In 2002 she became the first woman elected as governor of Michigan, and in 2006 she was re-elected with the largest number of votes ever cast for governor in the state. Under Granholm’s leadership, Michigan led the country in the improvement of job market conditions between 2009 and 2010, according to the Gallup Job Creation Index. Granholm is a senior research fellow at the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute and a project scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an honours graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.