Joan Walsh is The Nation’s National Affairs Correspondent 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.”Salon’s very first news editor, Walsh served as editor in chief for six years. She is a regular on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and All In with Chris Hayes and has appeared on many other national shows including Real Time with Bill Maher and Now on PBS.Bio: The Nation