Steve Benen

Steve Benen is an American progressive political writer, blogger, MSNBC contributor, and the producer of The Rachel Maddow Show, for which he received two Emmy Awards in 2017. Benen's first book, The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics, was published in 2020. His latest book is Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past, which was published in August 2024.