Joan Walsh is The Nation's National Affairs Correspondent and a CNN 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." She served as Salon magazine's first editor-in-chief for six years, and is a regular on programs such as All In with Chris Hayes, Real Time with Bill Maher and Now on PBS.