Rachel Maddow

The host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show is openly liberal, a fact that she makes no apologies for in public or in her first book, Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power.While Maddow points out that Pres. Obama is guilty of using his office’s newfound ability to wage war with little congressional oversight or debate, her main targets are Dick Cheney and Ronald Reagan. She paints Reagan in an especially harsh light, describing him as a politician who never let facts get in the way of a good story as he fanned Cold War fears into a firestorm that blew him into the White House. Live, expect Maddow to examine how things have changed in the U.S., and to lay out reasons the country needs to abandon this new, bloody normal. 

Updated 04/11/2012