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# Nancy Gibbs

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## Nancy Gibbs


Gibbs, a former writer and editor in chief at TIME, is the director of the Shorenstein Center and the visiting Edward R. Murrow professor at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the co-author, along with Michael Duffy, of two best-selling presidential histories: [_The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity_](http://www.amazon.com/The-Presidents-Club-Exclusive-Fraternity/dp/1439127727?tag=timecom-20) and [_The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House_](http://www.amazon.com/The-Preacher-Presidents-Billy-Graham/dp/1599951045?tag=timecom-20). 


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## Nancy Gibbs


Articles 137Collections 9

* ![Anti-Trump Protests Across The Country](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b2f9d53923f572/6998cacee1ba004df198e06b/No-Kings-Sign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 17, 2025  
### [The Potential Power, and Perils, of the 'No Kings' Protests](https://time.com/7326127/power-of-the-no-kings-protests/)  
The protests are "not a movement with a single ideology or identity," writes Nancy Gibbs. "That’s it...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Donald Trump Watches SpaceX Launch Its Sixth Test Flight Of Starship Spacecraft](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5508dd43950a1c44/698b247316d88444fec46295/trump-legacy-media.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 4, 2024  
### [How the Media Can Build Back Trust](https://time.com/7199622/trump-media-coverage-2025/)  
Reporters‘ constitutionally protected function is holding the powerful to account for what they actu...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Supporters gather before trump’s speech at a rally in Butler, PA., on July 13](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7f129c6e7e10814/698a58d90116825f05986011/america-trump-2024-flag-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 18, 2024  
### [How America Can Still Come Together](https://time.com/6999339/political-violence-america-unity/)  
Former TIME editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs writes that Americans are largely in agreement on key issue...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Americans Across The Nation Watch The First Presidential Debate Between Joe Biden And Donald Trump](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa2f2408ca628ea9/698a5848e6e84aacba2b31ae/trump-biden-2024-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 28, 2024  
### [The Debate Was a Mess. Where We Go From Here](https://time.com/6993733/biden-trump-debate-attention-matters-essay/)  
Debates are a test of candidates; post debates are a test of everyone else.  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Members of the media wait for the arrival of former President Donald Trump at a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, on Feb. 17, 2024.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09ae60d0ea724a98/698a55dc86f68ee6db6f506d/press-media-election-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 25, 2024  
### [How the Press Can Rebuild Trust This Election](https://time.com/6970077/media-coverage-election-opportunities-2024/)  
In an unprecedented year, the core of journalism remains the same  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![TIME Person of the Year](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82ccd4934adcaa0e/698a4150b21a9c22e4507aa5/GettyImages-1358939134.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 17, 2023  
### [Humans still need to oversee the internet](https://time.com/6324817/managing-ai-social-media-disinformation/)  
Former TIME Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs makes the case for humans in the age of AI.  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court April 4, 2023, in New York.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b14434cfd6bbfc0/698a3bb309208f0f1a41a3be/trump-arraignment-gibbs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 4, 2023  
### [Gibbs: A Historic—and Entirely Predictable—Indictment](https://time.com/6268675/donald-trump-indictment-historic-significance/)  
'The scandal of Donald Trump’s passage through public life rests both in what he has done and what h...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![American politician and Senator from Kansas, Robert Dole.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt811931a6c488e5ba/69894404929fadbdedbf2964/bob-dole-politician-kansas-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 5, 2021  
### [Bob Dole, Senate Legend Who Championed Compromise, Dies](https://time.com/5505063/bob-dole-dies/)  
Nothing in Dole’s life was easy, and that’s the way he wanted it  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Caution tape blocks a stairwell inside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 9](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40c1ebc80a81b9c5/698a1690db2987aada26641f/capitol-riots-moral-leadership.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 21, 2021  
### [Why America Needs to Restore Moral Leadership](https://time.com/5932018/capitol-riots-moral-leadership/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![A medical-technical assistant shows the graphic evaluation of negative and positive corona tests on a monitor](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte68b77a5aa52b5be/698a0cae0116822a2b97f3ae/coronavirus-numbers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 9, 2020  
### [What Numbers Mean in the Coronavirus Crisis](https://time.com/5818677/coronavirus-numbers/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![100 Women of the Year: Nancy Gibbs](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92b03d171301122e/698a0b228fd2ee2fd0360fbb/100-women-of-the-year-nancy-gibbs-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 5, 2020  
### [Why TIME Revisited a Century of Women and Influence](https://time.com/5793734/time-100-women-of-the-year-issue/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Oct 1, 2019  
### [The Danger of Donald Trump’s Ignorance](https://time.com/5690324/donald-trump-ignorance/)  
Ignorance is different than deceit and sometimes more dangerous.  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![A presidential campaign would spotlight Biden’s record on gender issues, from the Anita Hill hearings in 1991, to his introduction of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, to his tactile tendencies, as in a 2012 campaign stop at a Seaman, Ohio, diner \(pic](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b5de4d5987affc6/698947c6b21a9c0a44500627/nancy-gibbs-how-democrats-deal-with-biden-brief-lede-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 4, 2019  
### [Joe Biden and the Hard Choices for Democrats in 2020](https://time.com/5564172/joe-biden-2020-nancy-gibbs/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![President Donald Trump during a campaign rally for republican presidential candidate in Warren, Michigan on March 4, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa6daf71315c9684/6989461897cdffd3dc6b76e4/trump-lost-winning-campaign-election.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 1, 2019  
### [How Donald Trump Lost by Winning](https://time.com/5542123/donald-trump-michael-cohen-2016-campaign/)  
And what it means for voters and future presidential candidates  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced on The Late Show that she will run for President](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc44cbc142aa11508/698944b509208f8e55413491/kirsten-gillibrand-stephen-colbert-view-lede.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 7, 2019  
### [Trump Shocks. His Opponents Bore. How the 2020 Election Will Expose Whether Americans Can Still Pay Attention to What Matters](https://time.com/5523785/2020-election-what-matters/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)

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