Joan Walsh is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, and an MSNBC political analyst. She is the author of What's the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America, which the Philadelphia Daily News called “one of the best books of 2012 – and even more relevant now.” Hardball host Chris Matthews called it ‘Engaging, thoughtful, provocative, utterly persuasive.”

Walsh was the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, the pioneering, award-winning political and cultural Web Site, as well as its first news editor and a longtime editor at large. She is a regular on MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris Matthews," and “All In with Chris Hayes.” She has appeared on many other national shows including "Real Time with Bill Maher" and “The News Hour” and "Now" on PBS. She writes regularly on American politics, feminism and issues of economic opportunity and income inequality.

Before her time at Salon, she worked as a consultant on education and poverty issues for community groups and foundations, including the Rockefeller Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation. She's written for publications ranging from Vogue to the Nation, and for newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. An avid baseball fan, she's the co-author of Splash Hit: The Pacific Bell Park Story, about the building of the San Francisco Giants legendary waterfront baseball stadium. Walsh lives in New York.