Author

Ruth Conniff

Ruth Conniff

Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She formerly served as Editor-in-chief of The Progressive Magazine, and opened the Progressive’s office in Washington, DC, during the Clinton Administration, where she made her debut as a political pundit on CNN’s Capital Gang Sunday and Fox News. She moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, for a year in 2017, where she covered U.S./Mexico relations, the migrant caravan, and Mexico’s efforts to grapple with Donald Trump. Conniff is a frequent guest on All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and has appeared on Good Morning America, Democracy Now!, Wisconsin Public Radio, and other radio and television programs. In 2011, she did award-winning coverage of the uprising against Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin. She has also written for The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. Conniff graduated from Yale University in 1990, where she ran track and edited the campus magazine The New Journal.

COMMENTARY

Going for broke: How the debt ceiling fight exposed Republican bankruptcy

By: - June 5, 2023

The party of Lincoln has been reduced to a bunch of grumpy old haters who can’t do math. That’s the lesson of the debt ceiling fight. After pushing the United States to the brink of a disastrous, economy-wrecking default, the GOP pulled back and accepted a compromise that leaves most of President Joe Biden’s key priorities in […]

Anti-Trump ad by Republican group airs in Ohio

By: - May 13, 2020

An ad seeking to persuade Republicans not to vote for Donald Trump went up on cable television stations in Ohio Tuesday. The ad, titled “Mourning in America,” contrasts Trump with Ronald Reagan, and has generated more than 20 million impressions on YouTube and prompted an angry rant on Twitter from Trump. “More than 60,000 Americans have died from […]

Tough times on the farm: A look at agriculture in the Midwest

By: and - March 30, 2020

All in all, 2019 was a terrible year for farmers across the Midwest and so far 2020 doesn’t look much better. Bad weather, trade wars and low prices due to oversupply all contributed to the grim economic news, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc with export markets. “Agriculture has been in a pretty […]