Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Gwen Ifill will speak at the Madison Civics Club's Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, lunch meeting. Ifill, moderator and managing editor for PBS' "Washington Week" and reporter for the "PBS NewsHour," will address "Politics, Policy and Reality: What's Really Going on in Washington." Ifill is the author of the bestseller "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." Reservation deadline: Oct. 21