Howard Fineman

Howard David Fineman (November 17, 1948) is an American journalist and television commentator. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Fineman has covered nine presidential campaigns as a reporter, writer, and analyst. For 30 years, he drove Newsweek magazine's political coverage. At the height of the publication's influence, Fineman was its chief political correspondent, senior editor and deputy Washington bureau chief. His "Living Politics" column was posted weekly on Newsweek.com. Following Newsweek,he was named global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.

Fineman has also been an NBC News analyst, contributing reports to the network and its cable affiliate MSNBC. He appeared regularly on ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'', ''The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'', and ''The Rachel Maddow Show''. The author of scores of ''Newsweek'' cover stories, Fineman's work has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Republic'' and RealClearPolitics, where was a contributing correspondent during the 2020 election cycle. Between 2017 and 2019, Fineman was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communications, teaching a seminar on “New Media Journalism and Politics in the Trump Era.”

Fineman is the author of ''The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country,'' which takes the position that we are a nation built on healthy disagreements and arguments. Washingtonian magazine described the book as offering a “unique vantage point from which to see that the debates that shape American politics are timeless and profound." Provided by Wikipedia