Joe Conason was born on January 25,1954 and is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator.
18 Facts About Joe Conason
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Joe Conason is the founder and editor-in-chief of The National Memo, a daily political newsletter and website that features breaking news and commentary.
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Joe Conason's articles have appeared in dozens of publications around the world including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Village Voice and Harpers.
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Joe Conason's books include The Hunting of the President and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.
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Joe Conason was born in New York City and grew up in White Plains, New York.
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Joe Conason was named after his paternal grandfather, Joseph Jacob Cohen, an organizer and journalist of the American anarchist movement during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Joe Conason earned a degree in history from Brandeis University in 1975.
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Joe Conason covered environmental, racial, and political issues for both publications.
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From 1978 to 1990, Joe Conason worked as a columnist, staff writer, and national correspondent for the counter-cultural The Village Voice in New York City where he made a name for himself as an experienced and skilled reporter as well as a sharp commentator.
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Joe Conason's investigative reporting in 1985 exposed the hidden Manhattan real estate holdings of President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, thereby helping to topple their dictatorial government.
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In 2004, Joe Conason was one of the first journalists to delve into the background and finances of the group known as the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth", which had targeted Democratic presidential nominee and Vietnam veteran John Kerry.
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In February 2000, Conason published an investigative profile of George W Bush in Harper's Magazine that examined his business career in Texas and how his former business partners potentially profited from state investments after Bush became governor.
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Joe Conason profiled Bill Clinton for Esquire in December 2005, after traveling to Africa with the former president and covering the inaugural conference of the Clinton Global Initiative.
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The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal, about what Joe Conason claims was the Bush administration's efforts to "end Social Security as we know it", appeared in 2005 with a preface by Al Franken, another liberal writer who later served as a US Senator from Minnesota.
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Joe Conason interviewed Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton and many of Clinton's friends, aides, rivals and supporters to offer a comprehensive analysis of Clinton's post-presidency.
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In 2024, Joe Conason published The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism, which chiefly criticizes Donald Trump, exposes fraudsters and charlatans within the ranks of American conservatism and the religious right dating back to Joseph McCarthy.
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Joe Conason is a frequent guest on radio and television including MSNBC and CNN.
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In October 2002, Joe Conason married Elizabeth Horan Wagley, then the development director of the US branch of Medecins du Monde.