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Michael Medved's Latest Columns

  • Why the Public Questions the Recovery

    Posted on: June 12, 2013
    While economists and politicians celebrate economic recovery, the American people refuse to accept the good news. Only a third of the public sees the nation headed in “the right direction” – a figure that’s dropped ten points since President Obama’s re-election. Read More

  • Choosing from the Center -- of the GOP!

    Posted on: June 5, 2013
    Democrats regularly insist the GOP has been captured by right wing extremists and only hard-line conservatives can prevail in the primary process. Read More

  • Does an Opposition Congress Doom a Presidency

    Posted on: May 29, 2013
    President Obama blames Congressional Republicans for collapse of his “hope and change” agenda but those claims make no sense in historical context. Since World War II, all the most successful two-term presidents worked with Congresses where the opposition enjoyed far more strength than today’s GOP wields against Obama. Opposition Democrats dominated both Houses of Congress for six of the eight years of Eisenhower’s presidency, as did opposition Republicans for six of eight years under Bill Clinton. Read More

  • Ebert's Death Means the End of an Era

    Posted on: April 10, 2013
    The national outpouring of grief and praise in reaction to the death of Roger Ebert signaled the film critic’s ultimate victory in his long-running competition with cross-town Chicago rival (and on-air TV partner) Gene Siskel. When Siskel died of a brain tumor in 1999 his passing provoked few if any front page tributes, no effusive presidential proclamation, and scant sentiments like the LA Times headline anointing Ebert as “First Citizen Critic and Father to Us All.” Read More

  • Missing Republicans -- Found!

    Posted on: March 27, 2013
    On talk radio, in internet commentary and at right wing conferences, worried analysts and activists obsess over the dire electoral consequence of "three million missing Republicans" who doomed conservative chances in 2012. Read More

THE HOST

MICHAEL MEDVED is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily three hour show reaches 200 stations across the country and an audience of 4.7 million placing him, for ten years in a row, on the Talkers Magazine list of the top ten political talks shows in the United States.

Born in Philadelphia, Michael attended public schools in San Diego and Los Angeles before winning admission to Yale at age 16 as a National Merit Scholar.He majored in American History and graduated with honors, before attending Yale Law School, where his classmates included Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Michael's columns on politics and media appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast and USA Today, where he is a member of the Board of Contributors. His work as a film critic, based on short-lived  experience as a Hollywood screen writer, featured positions at CNN (1980-84),Great Britain's Channel 4 Network (1984), and PBS (1985-96) where he served as co-host of the popular weekly show Sneak Previews. He was also Chief Film Critic of the New York Post for five years before launching his daily radio show in 1996.

Michael has been married for more than a quarter of a century to clinical psychologist Dr. Diane Medved, a bestselling author in her own right (THE CASE AGAINST DIVORCE). They live in the Seattle area where they raised their three children.