Rachel Maddow

Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host, political commentator and author born on April 1, 1973, in Castro Valley, California. He is known for his self-titled evening news-commentary program since 2008.

From academia to radio

He completed his bachelor's degree in public policy at Stanford University in 1994. He completed his doctorate in politics at Oxford University, where he went on a Rhodes scholarship; His thesis, which he completed in 2001, examined HIV/AIDS and health policies in British and US prisons. He began broadcasting in 1999 at WRNX radio in Massachusetts.

In 2004, he moved to the liberal Air America radio network; He first appeared on the show Unfiltered, then hosted his own show from 2005.

Television, books and podcasts

The Rachel Maddow Show premiered on MSNBC on September 8, 2008 and quickly became one of the channel's most-watched programs. Starting from 2022, the program began to be broadcast once a week, on Monday evenings; At the beginning of 2025, Maddow appeared on screen five nights a week again for a while to monitor the first term of the new administration.

The program continues after the channel takes the name MS NOW in 2025. His work in news broadcasting was rewarded with Emmy awards.

As an author, he has published Drift (2012), Blowout (2019) and Prequel (2023); The audiobook of Blowout won a Grammy in 2021. In the field of podcasting, he prepared the series Bag Man (2018), which tells about the Spiro Agnew scandal, Ultra (2022), which examines the far-right movements in the 1940s, and Burn Order (2025), which deals with the sending of Japanese Americans to concentration camps in the Second World War. These works received awards such as the Hillman Award and the duPont-Columbia journalism award.