Charles Krauthammer was born in New York City on March 13, 1950. He received an honors degree in political science and economics from McGill University in 1970 and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1975. He is a syndicated columnist, political commentator and physician. He is a nightly panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier and a weekly panelist on PBS's Inside Washington. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence. His books include Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the Eighties, Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World, and Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics.