Ruth Conniff is the Political Editor of the Progressive Magazine. A native of Madison, WIsconsin, she first joined the magazine when she was hired as a summer intern by the late Erwin Knoll after her sophomore year at Yale. Shortly after graduating from college in 1990, she came to work as Associate Editor for the Progressive, becoming Washington Editor and opening the Progressive's Washington, DC, office in 1997. During the 1990s, Conniff covered welfare reform in Wisconsin and around the country, as well as the drug war in Colombia, and other topics, including women's sports (an avid runner, Conniff coached her old high school track and cross-country teams at Madison East High School for many years).
In Washington, Conniff became a regular on TV pundit shows on CNN, Fox News, and PBS. She still appears frequently on PBS's To The Contrary and on the Ed Schultz Show on MSNBC.
Conniff was the recipient of an "Editor's Choice" award from Madison Magazine for her coverage of the Wisconsin Uprising in 2011. Her Progressive Magazine feature story on school privatization is a chapter in the book "It Happened in Wisconsin" recently published by Verso.
Today Conniff lives in Madison with her husband and three daughters, who marched on the Capitol with their teachers from the Madison Public Schools.
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By Ruth Conniff, March 30, 2013
If the Supreme Court punts on making a landmark decision on Prop 8 and DOMA it will likely be because the Justices decide the plaintiffs lack standing.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, March 28, 2013
The Vermont Independent Stands Up to Eric Holder and the Big Banks.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, March 18, 2013
This is the budget we would have liked to see President Obama propose.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, March 11, 2013
He’s again going after Medicaid, food assistance for the poor, and other domestic programs while promoting Medicare privatization.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, March 5, 2013
Walker Gets a Pass and The Dems' Mouthpiece Gets Shut Down.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, February 26, 2013
The Obama Administration has not done enough to protect Americans from the pain that looms.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, February 13, 2013
His presentation to the state’s biggest lobby could have been entitled "How Food and Medical Care Make the Poor Lazy."read more
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By Ruth Conniff, February 13, 2013
The best part of the State of the Union was when President Obama took it to the Republicans.read more
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By Kate Clinton, Will Durst, Amit Pal, Ruth Conniff, February 11, 2013
When the Pope announced this morning that he was resigning, he mentioned that he could no longer lead given "the pressures of spiritual leadership in the modern world."read more
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By Ruth Conniff, February 8, 2013
A new report exposes Republican vote-rigging schemes.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, February 4, 2013
They’re demanding more austerity and more pain, while blaming Obama for everything.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 22, 2013
We are never going back to the dark days before women assumed the right to control our own bodies and our own fates.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 21, 2013
The progressive tone of the last third of Obama's speech was so unexpectedly rousing, it jolted the crowd, and listeners of all political persuasions from coast to coast.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 17, 2013
Make the corporations pay, he says, not the elderly, and the poor, and our veterans.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 15, 2013
Contrary to expectations, Governor Scott Walker did bring up his campaign promise to create 250,000 new jobs in Wisconsin in his state of the state address Tuesday night.read more
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