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, January 17, 2012
Wisconsin’s recall is the biggest in American history.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 10, 2012
Bombarded with ads, cut out of the process, citizens band together to fight the corporate takeover of democracy.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 7, 2012
Every time Walker and his gang of right-wing Republicans get into legal trouble, they turn to one private law firm.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, January 3, 2012
One good thing about Iowa, it provides a forum for wingnuts. And the wingnuts on the right are often the most interesting candidates. Their politics are often the politics of genuine grassroots movements--even if they are movements of people progressives can't stand.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, December 22, 2011
Thompson urged Walker to reach a compromise with the unions. "Tommy was beside himself that Walker was so dogmatic. . . . After a certain point, Walker quit taking Tommy's phone calls "read more
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By Ruth Conniff, December 15, 2011
"From Superior to Beloit to La Crosse to Milwaukee and all points in between, the people of Wisconsin are rising up,"read more
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By Ruth Conniff, December 14, 2011
One month down and one month to go before the deadline to submit 540,208 signatures.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, December 7, 2011
Thompson's candidacy sure sheds an interesting light on the extremism of the current crop of Republicansread more
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By Ruth Conniff, November 29, 2011
It is abundantly clear to anyone who lives in Wisconsin how grassroots the recall effort really is.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, November 22, 2011
The recall has the festive feeling of a statewide party that most Wisconsin citizens are coming to--friends, neighbors, and relatives of all persuasions. Kind of like Thanksgiving, but more urgent.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, November 15, 2011
“If I were Walker, I would be worried.”read more
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By Ruth Conniff, November 8, 2011
Working people in Ohio just dealt a major blow to corporate-financed politicians who want to strip us of our rights.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, November 1, 2011
It's now legal in Wisconsin to pack heat at the office, and the Walker Administration tells those who aren't carrying weapons to respect those who are.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, October 27, 2011
The people Republicans hope to alienate with their outrageous ad tend to agree with the Occupy Wall Street protesters.read more
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By Ruth Conniff, October 18, 2011
It seems transparently ridiculous to call his efforts a grassroots, citizens' uprising against the "privileged class."read more
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