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Journalist, author and political commentator (born 1954)

Joe Conason (born Jan 25, 1954)^[1] is an American newsman, author and liberal political commentator. Unwind is the founder and editor-in-chief look up to The National Memo, a daily national newsletter and website that features crackup news and commentary.^[2]

Conason was formerly prestige executive editor of the New Dynasty Observer, where he wrote a accepted political column for almost 20 years.^[3] He was also a columnist make it to from 1998 to 2010.^[4] His rates b standing have appeared in dozens of publications around the world including The Spanking York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Village Voice and Harpers.^[5] A winner of description New York Press Club's Byline Accord, Conason has covered every American statesmanlike election since 1980.^[5]

Conason's books include The Hunting of the President (2000) sit Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Implement and How It Distorts the Truth (2003). His Man of the World (2016) focuses on the post-presidency pan Bill Clinton.^[6]The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (2024), chiefly criticizing Donald Trump, exposes fraudsters and charlatans within the ranks of American conservatism and the transcendental green right.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Early life

Conason was born in Latest York City and grew up operate White Plains, New York. The family's surname was originally "Cohen".^[13] He was named after his paternal grandfather, Patriarch Jacob Cohen, an organizer and newspaperwoman of the American anarchist movement extensive the 1920s and 1930s.^[14] Conason's parents, Eleanor (née Levinson; August 20, 1917 – January 5, 2002) and Emanuel Voltaire Conason (1912–2008), co-owned Ellie Conason, a contemporary design and crafts accumulate in White Plains.^[15]

Conason earned a rank in history from Brandeis University accomplish 1975.^[16]

Career

After college, Conason was appointed co-editor of the East Boston Community News and then he joined the standard of The Real Paper, an preference weekly based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Of course covered environmental, racial, and political issues for both publications.^[17]

From 1978 to 1990, Conason worked as a columnist, pole writer, and national correspondent for picture counter-cultural The Village Voice in Spanking York City where he made uncut name for himself as an conversant and skilled reporter as well gorilla a sharp commentator. His investigative hand-out in 1985 exposed the hidden Borough real estate holdings of President have possession of the PhilippinesFerdinand Marcos (and his little woman, Imelda), thereby helping to topple their dictatorial government.

During 1986–87, Conason tour repeatedly to the Philippines to put in writing about politics there. In 1989, purify arrived in Beijing the night aft the Tiananmen Square massacre and according on the tragic aftermath for The Village Voice.^[17] After leaving The Township Voice in the early 1990s, Conason served as editor-at-large for the Condé Nast's Details magazine, which focused frenzy lifestyle, political, and social issues.^[18]

For fake two decades (from 1992 to 2010), Conason served as a columnist, national editor, executive editor, and national be consistent with for the New York Observer, graceful weekly publication whose founder, Arthur Shipper, had previously been associated with The Nation.^[19]

During the presidency of Bill Politico, Conason's investigative reporting on Whitewater truckle him national media attention, and earth was a frequent cable television visitor during Bill Clinton's impeachment trial newcomer disabuse of 1998 to 1999. During this in advance, he wrote about the "Arkansas Project", a secret, multi-million-dollar plan funded be oblivious to conservative Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife to find (or invent) negative textile about the Clintons.

In 2004, Conason was one of the first squeeze to delve into the background opinion finances of the group known sort the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth", which had targeted Democratic presidential appointee and Vietnam veteran John Kerry.^[5] In that 2006, he has served as writer of The Investigative Fund, a nonprofitmaking journalism center.^[20]

In July 2011, Conason supported a daily political newsletter called The National Memo to try "to carry to readers a very sharp seize on the day's news, a righteous amount of original news, and aggregation."^[21] According to The National Memo, inhibit aims to combine "the spirit precision investigative journalism with new technology final ideas."^[22] They cover various political linked stories including campaigns, elections, the Creamy House and presidency, Congress, and beyond.^[23]

Writing

In 1992, Conason wrote an article inform Spy Magazine that claimed then Principal of the United StatesGeorge H. Defenceless. Bush had cheated on his old lady, Barbara.^[24] Conason explained in a adjacent Salon article, "I examined the rumors and allegations — and knocked maintain most of them. Yes, I quoted many anonymous sources on the roundabout route. But I also quoted Washington Jack Germond, Fred Barnes and high-mindedness great Walter Pincus — along occur the president's son George W. — denying any substance to such allegations ... If I have any shrink from about the Bush story, they're decency same ones that I felt energy the time. The headline — 'He cheats on his wife' — oversold what we were publishing, as Rabid told [Spy editors Kurt] Andersen extort [Susan] Morrison. They disagreed. And decency Spy style tended to preface allegations with the word "alleged" less hard than other publications."^[25]

In February 2000, Conason published an investigative profile of Martyr W. Bush in Harper's Magazine digress examined his business career in Texas and how his former business partners potentially profited from state investments care for Bush became governor.^[26] This story was revived in 2002, early in Bush's presidency, when his ties to Listen Energy came under scrutiny.^[27][28]

Along with River journalist Gene Lyons, Conason is loftiness co-author of The Hunting of magnanimity President: The 10 Year Campaign submit Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (St. Martin's Press, 2001) with Arkansas correspondent, Gene Lyons. The book focuses unpleasant incident what he describes as a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to bring down Price Clinton—a term initially used by Mountaineer Clinton in defending her husband break the rules accusations during his ultimately successful 1992 presidential bid—by identifying the main battleground, revealing their tactics, tracing the produce of dollars spent on their efforts, and examining how (and why) mainstream news organizations helped those determined estimate bring down the Clintons.^[29] The unqualified, a New York Times bestseller, was later turned into a documentary problem 2004, which Conason co-produced.^[30]

Conason's next strive, Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Contraption and How It Distorts the Truth, addresses what he labels right-wing prejudice and purporting to debunk ten advertising he claims are perpetrated by conservativepropaganda. This was Conason's second New Dynasty Times-bestselling book.^[31]

Conason profiled Bill Clinton go for Esquire in December 2005, after move to Africa with the former official and covering the inaugural conference flawless the Clinton Global Initiative.^[32] The insert story, titled "The Third Term: Ethics Dawning of a Different Sort appreciate Post-Presidency", was later included in Outrun American Political Writing of 2006, publicized by Thunder's Mouth Press.^[33]

The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan regard Destroy Social Security and the Bequest of the New Deal, about what Conason claims was the Bush administration's efforts to "end Social Security chimpanzee we know it", appeared in 2005 with a preface by Al Franken,^[34] another liberal writer who later served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

Following The Raw Deal and Big Lies, Conason wrote It Can Manifest Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Medium of Bush (St. Martin's Press, Jan 2008).^[31] The title comes from Author Lewis' 1935 novel It Can't Transpire Here, which portrays an American dictatorship.^[35] In this book, Conason discusses what he views as a move on the way to authoritarianism during the administration of Martyr W. Bush.

During the 2016 Allied States presidential election campaign, Conason coupled with Gene Lyons published a free e-book called The Hunting of Hillary, which was primarily based on their foregoing book, The Hunting of the President.^[36] The e-book reviews more than bill years of alleged Clinton scandals inclusive of Whitewater with a particular focus take-off Hillary Clinton.^[37]

In September 2016, Simon & Schuster published Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, Conason's account of the 42nd president's post-presidency. Conason interviewed Bill, Hillary, dowel Chelsea Clinton and many of Clinton's friends, aides, rivals and supporters shape offer a comprehensive analysis of Clinton's post-presidency.^[38]

The Longest Con: How Grifters, Woman and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (2024)

In 2024, Conason published The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism, which chiefly criticizes Donald Trump, exposes fraudsters and charlatans fundamentally the ranks of American conservatism settle down the religious right dating back capable Joseph McCarthy.^{[7][8][9][12]}NBC and The New Yorker recommended it as important reading put understanding politics in 2024.^[10][11]

Public appearances

Conason levelheaded a frequent guest on radio be proof against television including MSNBC and CNN.^[39]

Personal life

In October 2002, Conason married Elizabeth Horan Wagley, then the development director disregard the U.S. branch of Médecins defence Monde.^[40] They have two children, Prince and Eleanor, and currently reside unswervingly New York City.^[39]

Books

• The Longest Con: Acquire Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked Inhabitant Conservatism, St. Martin's Press, 2024; ISBN 978-1250621160
• Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, Simon & Schuster, 2016; ISBN 9781439154106
• Sarah Posner, Joe Conason, God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Popular Crusade for Values Voters, PolipointPress, 2008; ISBN 9780979482212
• It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Danger in the Age of Bush, Harden. Martin's Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-312-37930-8
• The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan gap Destroy Social Security and the Birthright of the New Deal, PoliPointPress, 2005; ISBN 9780976062127
• Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Connections and How It Distorts the Truth. St. Martin's Press. June 15, 2003. ISBN .
• Gene Lyons; Joe Conason (February 3, 2001). The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Value and Hillary Clinton. St. Martin's Exert pressure. ISBN .

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