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Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She formerly served as Editor-in-chief of
The Progressive Magazine where she worked for many years from both Madison and Washington, DC. Shortly after Donald Trump took office she moved with her family to Oaxaca, Mexico, and covered U.S./Mexico relations, the migrant caravan, and Mexico’s efforts to grapple with Trump. Conniff is a frequent guest on MSNBC and has appeared on
Good Morning America, Democracy Now!, Wisconsin Public Radio, CNN, Fox News and many other radio and television outlets. She has also written for
The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and
The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She graduated from Yale University in 1990, where she ran track and edited the campus magazine
The New Journal. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and three daughters.