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Joe ConasonFellowPrior to The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, Joe Conason worked as investigative editor at The American Prospect magazine for two years. For the past 15 years, Conason has written a popular political column for The New York Observer. Creators Syndicate distributes his column nationally. He served as the Manhattan weekly's executive editor from 1992 to 1997. Since 1998, he has also written a column that is among the most widely-read features on Salon.com. A winner of the New York Press Club's Byline Award, he has covered every American presidential election since 1980. He appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio. He is the author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth (St. Martin's, 2003), a New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller, and co-author (with Gene Lyons) of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (St. Martin's, 2000), which appeared on both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. Conason co-produced a 2004 documentary film, The Hunting of the President, which was based on the book and was selected as a special screening by the festival director at the Sundance Film Festival. Conason began his career as a reporter for the East Boston Community News, a small neighborhood newspaper, in 1976. From there he went on to join The Real Paper, an alternative weekly published in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a staff writer. He covered environmental, racial, and political issues for both papers. From 1978 to 1990, he worked for The Village Voice as a columnist, staff writer and national correspondent. During his twelve years at the Voice, he covered beats ranging from national political campaigns, City Hall scandals and the Iran-contra affair to major foreign stories in the Philippines and China. In 1985, he co-authored the Voice exposé of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos's hidden Manhattan real estate holdings. That worldwide scoop led to Congressional hearings, and provoked the election that preceded the Philippine dictator's overthrow. Prior to joining the Observer in 1992, he spent two years as editor-at-large for Condé Nast's Details magazine. During the Clinton administration, his investigative reporting on the Whitewater affair and the Office of Independent Counsel for The Nation and the New York Observer brought him national media attention. He revealed the existence of the "Arkansas Project," a secret, multi-million-dollar effort funded by a conservative Pittsburgh billionaire to find or invent negative material about the Clintons. In 2004, Conason was one of the first journalists to delve into the background and finances of the so-called "Swift-Boat Veterans for Truth" and its campaign against John Kerry for Salon.com. Conason graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with honors in history. He was born in New York City, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth Wagley, and their two children.
Selected articles: On the team: The stunning hypocrisy of Journolist's critics Call the G.O.P.'s Bailout Bluff McCain proves he's unfit to serve A Weathervane, Not A Leader The corporate financiers are wrong The Florida-Michigan Farce A truth teller who deserves justice
Read the rest of Joe Conason's Salon columns. Read the rest of Joe Conason's New York Observer columns.
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The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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