David Brancaccio is the kind of man who helps prove Auberon Waugh right when Waugh wrote, “Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics, and the shits into law.” As a journalist and broadcaster, Brancaccio has a long-standing reputation for objective reporting, clever insight, and careful doses of urgency in covering immediate human issues ranging from democracy and reproductive rights to tribal bloodshed in Kenya. Full story