Rachel Maddow

Maddow was born in Castro Valley, California. Her father, Robert B. Maddow, is a former United States Air Force captain who resigned his commission the year before her birth and then worked as a lawyer for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. Her mother, Elaine (née Gosse), was a school program administrator. She has one older brother, David. Her paternal grandfather was from a Jewish family (the original family surname being Medvedof), who arrived in the United States from the Russian Empire. Her paternal grandmother was of Dutch descent. Maddow's Canadian mother, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, has English and Irish ancestry.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/10-things-you-didnt-know-_2_b_1932720.html|title=10 Things You Didn't Know about Rachel Maddow's Roots|last=Smolenyak|first=Megan|work=The Huffington Post|date=October 2, 2012|access-date=December 6, 2012|archive-date=November 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123054845/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/10-things-you-didnt-know-_2_b_1932720.html|url-status=live}}

Maddow has said her family is "very, very Catholic" and she grew up in a community that her mother has described as "very conservative". Maddow was a competitive athlete and participated in high school volleyball, basketball, and swimming.{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bay-Area-s-Maddow-is-cable-talk-s-newest-star-3195294.php|title=Bay Area's Maddow is cable talk's newest star|last=Garofoli|first=Joe|date=September 11, 2008|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=October 26, 2010|archive-date=May 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505070558/http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-09-11/news/17156737_1_pat-buchanan-buchanan-s-republican-national-convention-radio-network|url-status=live}}

Referring to John Hughes films, Maddow has described herself as being "a cross between the jock and the antisocial girl" in high school. She is a graduate of Castro Valley High School and attended Stanford University.{{Cite web|title=The life of Rachel Maddow: How a Rhodes scholar and AIDS activist became America's most unlikely cable television host|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/rachel-maddow-bio-rhodes-scholar-news-anchor-activist-2019-9|last=Pasley|first=James|website=Business Insider|access-date=2020-05-06|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806135213/https://www.businessinsider.com/rachel-maddow-bio-rhodes-scholar-news-anchor-activist-2019-9|url-status=live}} While a freshman, she was outed as a lesbian by the college newspaper when an interview with her was published before she could tell her parents.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209123953/http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/newsweek/2012/03/11/rachel-maddow-on-being-outed-by-her-college-newspaper.html|archive-date=December 9, 2012|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com//content/newsweek/2012/03/11/rachel-maddow-on-being-outed-by-her-college-newspaper.html|title=Rachel Maddow on Being Outed by Her College Newspaper|work=The Daily Beast|date=March 12, 2012|access-date=March 16, 2012}}

She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994. At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.{{cite web|url=http://www.jgfa.net/fellowprog.htm|title=John Gardner Fellowship Program |website=John Gardner Fellowship Association |access-date=July 22, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402085524/http://www.jgfa.net/fellowprog.htm |archive-date=April 2, 2012}} She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.{{cite web|url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941213Arc4011.html|website=Stanford University News Service|title=Two Alumni win Rhodes, Marshal Scholarships|date=December 13, 1994|access-date=October 7, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612123521/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941213Arc4011.html|url-status=live}} This made her the first openly lesbian winner of the Rhodes Scholarship.{{Efn|In 1990, now San Francisco lawyer John Crandon is believed to have been the first openly gay Rhodes scholar.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/pageoneplus/corrections-june-23-2013.html|title=Corrections: June 23, 2013|date=June 23, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 21, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414083131/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/pageoneplus/corrections-june-23-2013.html|url-status=live}}}} In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rachel-Maddow|title=Rachel Maddow | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=March 28, 2023 }} in politics at the University of Oxford. Her thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons" and was supervised by Lucia Zedner.{{cite thesis |type=DPhil |last=Maddow |first=Rachel |date=2001 |title=HIV/AIDS and health care reform in British and American prisons |publisher=University of Oxford|oclc = 49269166}}

Maddow's first job as a radio host was in 1999 at WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, then home to "The Dave in the Morning Show". She entered and won a contest the station held to find a new second lead for the show's principal host, Dave Brinnel.{{cite news|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|title=Rachel Maddow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2013/innovations-issue/#/?part=rachelmaddow|work=The New York Times Magazine|access-date=June 10, 2013|date=June 7, 2013|archive-date=December 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216003625/http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2013/innovations-issue/#/?part=rachelmaddow|url-status=live}} After the WRNX show, she hosted Big Breakfast on WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts, for two years, leaving in 2004 to join the new Air America radio network. There she hosted Unfiltered along with Chuck D (of the hip hop group Public Enemy) and Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) until its cancellation in March 2005.

Two weeks after the cancellation of Unfiltered in April 2005, Maddow's weekday two-hour radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing; in March 2008 it gained a third hour, broadcasting from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with David Bender filling in the third hour for the call-in section, when Maddow was on TV assignment. In 2008, the show's length returned to two hours when Maddow began the nightly MSNBC television program, also called The Rachel Maddow Show. Early in 2009, after renewing her contract with Air America, Maddow's radio show was moved to a one-hour timeslot at 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time. This iteration of the show began with a short introduction from Maddow followed by a broadcast based on the audio from the previous night's MSNBC broadcast of Maddow's television show. Little explanation or warning was given for this shift except for Maddow's comments that doing two daily shows was far too taxing.{{cite news |last1=Hinckley |first1=David |title=Maddow rechannels energy at Air America |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/maddow-rechannels-energy-air-america-article-1.388701 |access-date=25 October 2023 |work=New York Daily News |date=February 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919073354/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/maddow-rechannels-energy-air-america-article-1.388701 |archive-date=19 September 2013}} Maddow's radio show ended on January 21, 2010 when Air America ceased operations.{{Cite web |date=2010-01-21 |title=Air America, Liberal Radio Outpost, Ceases Operations - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-america-liberal-radio-outpost-ceases-operations/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}

In June 2005, Maddow became a regular panelist on the MSNBC show Tucker, hosted by Tucker Carlson. During and after the November 2006 election, she was a guest on CNN's Paula Zahn Now; she was also a correspondent for The Advocate Newsmagazine, an LGBT-oriented short-form newsmagazine for Logo deriving from news items published by The Advocate. In January 2008, Maddow became an MSNBC political analyst and was a regular panelist on MSNBC's Race for the White House with David Gregory and MSNBC's election coverage as well as a frequent contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

In 2008, Maddow was the substitute host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, her first time hosting a program on MSNBC. Maddow described herself on-air as "nervous". Keith Olbermann complimented her work, and she was brought back to host Countdown the next month. The show she hosted was the highest-rated news program among people aged 25 to 54. For her success, Olbermann ranked Maddow third in his show's segment "World's Best Persons". In July 2008, Maddow filled in again for several broadcasts. Maddow also filled in for David Gregory as host of Race for the White House.

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Olbermann advocated for Maddow to host her own show at MSNBC, and he was eventually able to persuade Phil Griffin to give her Dan Abrams' time slot.{{cite web |title=The Dr. Maddow Show |url=https://nymag.com/news/media/51822/ |first=Jessica |last=Pressler |date=October 31, 2008 |work=New York |access-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-date=April 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430043644/http://nymag.com/news/media/51822/ |url-status=live }}

{{Main|The Rachel Maddow Show}}

In August 2008, MSNBC announced The Rachel Maddow Show would replace Verdict with Dan Abrams in the network's 9:00 p.m. slot the following month. Following its debut, the show topped Countdown as the highest-rated show on MSNBC on several occasions. After being on air for more than a month, Maddow's program doubled the audience that hour. This show made Maddow the first openly gay or lesbian host of a primetime news program in the United States.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-243775 |title=Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV |last=Guthrie |first=Marisa |date=October 5, 2011 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 6, 2013 |archive-date=August 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818214123/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-243775 |url-status=live }}

The initial reviews for the show were positive. Los Angeles Times journalist Matea Gold{{cite news |title=LA Times' Matea Gold Joining Tribune Washington Bureau |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/la-times-matea-gold-joining-tribune-washington-bureau/25144/ |access-date=25 October 2023 |work=Adweek |date=24 June 2010}} wrote that Maddow "finds the right formula on MSNBC", and The Guardian wrote that Maddow had become the "star of America's cable news". Associated Press columnist David Bauder saw her as "[Keith] Olbermann's political soul mate", and he described the Olbermann-Maddow shows as a "liberal two-hour block".

Of her collegial relationship with Roger Ailes of Fox News, whom she sought out for technical advice, on camera angles, Maddow said she does not want to talk about it because "I don't want anybody else to use it. It was a nice thing that he did for me, and it's been valuable for me; it helped me get an advantage over my competitors."

In mid-May 2017, amid multiple controversies surrounding the Trump administration, MSNBC surpassed CNN and Fox News in the news ratings. For the week of May 15, The Rachel Maddow Show was the No. 1 non-sports program on cable for the first time.{{cite news|last1=Otterson|first1=Joe|title=MSNBC Reaches No. 1 for First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/msnbc-fox-news-ratings-cable-news-cnn-1202440320/|access-date=May 23, 2017|work=Variety|date=May 22, 2017|archive-date=May 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522225601/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/msnbc-fox-news-ratings-cable-news-cnn-1202440320/|url-status=live}} She has been called by Rolling Stone as "America's wonkiest anchor" who "cut through the chaos of the Trump administration{{snd}}and became the most trusted name in the news."{{cite news|last1=Reitman|first1=Janet|title=Rachel Maddow: The Rolling Stone Interview|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/rachel-maddow-the-rolling-stone-interview-w487750|access-date=July 2, 2017|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 14, 2017|archive-date=July 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702200156/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/rachel-maddow-the-rolling-stone-interview-w487750|url-status=live}} Maddow has argued that these issues "are the most serious scandals that any president has ever faced."{{rp|38}}

Maddow has stated that her show's mission is to "[i]ncrease the amount of useful information in the world".{{cite news|last1=Joyella|first1=Mark|title=MSNBC Promo Describes Rachel Maddow As a 'News Anchor'|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/msnbc-promo-describes-rachel-maddow-as-a-news-anchor/249105|access-date=December 14, 2017|work=Adweek|issue=December 5, 2014|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215001617/http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/msnbc-promo-describes-rachel-maddow-as-a-news-anchor/249105|url-status=live}}{{rp|56}} She said her rule for covering the Trump administration is: "Don't pay attention to what they say, focus on what they do ... because it's easier to cover a fast-moving story when you're not distracted by whatever the White House denials are."{{rp|37}}

Maddow often begins a broadcast with a lengthy story, sometimes longer than 20 minutes, which she has referred to on-air as the "A-block." This often begins with film clips and other media from events in past years or decades which she eventually connects with the news of the day. About this process, she has said: "The thing that defines whether or not you're good at this work is whether you have something to say when it's time to say something. Because you're going to have to say something when that light goes on ... I want to have something to say that people don't already know every single night, every single segment, and that makes it hard to get the process right because that's the only thing I care about."

Maddow was an outspoken advocate of vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during 2021.{{Cite web |title=Newspaper calls for 'benevolent conspiracy' of outreach to unvaccinated family, friends |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/newspaper-calls-for-benevolent-conspiracy-of-outreach-to-unvaccinated-family-friends-121569349962 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Data plainly shows benefits of Covid vaccine booster in reducing case rates |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/data-plainly-shows-benefits-of-covid-vaccine-booster-in-reducing-case-rates-128846917764 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Maddow: Set your concerns aside and get vaccinated. Do it for others if not for yourself. |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-set-your-concerns-aside-and-get-vaccinated-do-it-for-others-if-not-for-yourself-109959749614 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-08-02 |title=Growing number of unvaccinated Americans express public regrets |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/growing-number-unvaccinated-americans-express-public-regrets-n1275716 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Maddow: If you've been putting off vaccination, the time to do it is now. |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-if-you-ve-been-putting-off-vaccination-the-time-to-do-it-is-now-129251909682 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}} She encouraged people to get vaccinated, for the benefit of themselves and others.

Maddow took a hiatus from her show from February to April 2022 to coincide with production on the film adaptation of Bag Man.{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=January 31, 2022 |title=Rachel Maddow Hosts Show From Home Due To Covid Exposure; Confirms Plans For Hiatus To Work On Ben Stiller 'Bag Man' Movie & Says She May Take Another Break — Update |work=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/rachel-maddow-to-take-hiatus-1234923178/ |accessdate=January 31, 2022}} As of May 2022, her show has moved to a weekly broadcast on Mondays.{{cite web |title=Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show is going weekly starting in May |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/media/rachel-maddow-msnbc/index.html |website=CNN |date=April 12, 2022 |access-date=20 July 2022}}

On September 10, 2019, the One America News Network (OAN) filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California{{cite web |last1=Stone |first1=Ken |title=OAN to Appeal Judge's Ruling to Toss Rachel Maddow Defamation Suit |url=https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/05/22/oan-to-appeal-judges-ruling-to-toss-rachel-maddow-defamation-suit/ |work=Times of San Diego |access-date=23 May 2020 |date=May 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529061430/https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/05/22/oan-to-appeal-judges-ruling-to-toss-rachel-maddow-defamation-suit/ |url-status=live }} against Maddow for $10 million, after Maddow described the network as "paid Russian propaganda" on her program on July 22. Maddow had repeated a Daily Beast story which identified an OAN employee as also working for Sputnik News, which is owned by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya, and has been accused of deliberately disseminating disinformation, and is often described as an outlet for propaganda. Also named in the suit were Comcast, MSNBC, and NBCUniversal Media.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-sued-by-one-america-news-for-10-million-in-defamation-case/ |title=Rachel Maddow sued for $10 million by One America News in defamation case |author= |date=September 10, 2019 |website=CBS News |access-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-date=November 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108001232/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-sued-by-one-america-news-for-10-million-in-defamation-case/ |url-status=live }}

On May 22, 2020, the case was dismissed by Judge Cynthia Bashant, who found that "the contested statement is an opinion that cannot serve as the basis for a defamation". OAN parent company Herring Networks said they planned to appeal.{{cite web |last1=Maddaus |first1=Gene |title=Rachel Maddow Wins Dismissal of OAN Defamation Lawsuit |url=https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/rachel-maddow-oan-defamation-dismissed-1234614682/ |work=Variety |access-date=23 May 2020 |date=May 22, 2020 |archive-date=June 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612154137/https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/rachel-maddow-oan-defamation-dismissed-1234614682/ |url-status=live }}

After considering Herring's appeal, in August 2021, the decision in favor of Maddow was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568213-oan-loses-appeal-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-rachel-maddow|title=OAN loses appeal in defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow|newspaper=The Hill |date=August 17, 2021 |last1=Castronuovo |first1=Celine }}Herring Networks, Inc. v. Maddow, 8 F.4th 1148 (9th Cir. 2021). The Court of Appeals also affirmed a trial court ruling that requires Herring to pay Maddow's attorneys' fees.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-loses-appeal-against-rachel-maddow-must-pay-msnbc-at-least-dollar250000|title=OAN Loses Appeal Against Maddow, Must Pay MSNBC at Least $250,000|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=August 17, 2021|last1=Baragona|first1=Justin}}

Maddow wrote Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (2012) about the role of the military in postwar American politics. Upon its release, Drift reached the first position of The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction.{{cite news|last=Cowles|first=Gregory|title=Inside the List|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/inside-the-list.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 6, 2012|access-date=August 5, 2017|archive-date=August 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806063844/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/inside-the-list.html|url-status=live}}

In December 2013, The Washington Post announced that Maddow would write a monthly opinion column for the paper, contributing one article per month over a period of six months.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/12/11/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-to-write-washington-post-column/ |title=MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to write Washington Post column |last=Wemple |first=Erik |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=December 11, 2013 |archive-date=November 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101062635/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/12/11/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-to-write-washington-post-column/ |url-status=live }}

On March 2, 2018, The New York Times published Maddow's first crossword puzzle, in collaboration with Joe DiPietro.{{cite news |last1=Amlen |first1=Deb |title=Keeper of the Flame |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2018-03-02.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 1, 2018 |access-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111173713/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/crosswords/daily-puzzle-2018-03-02.html |url-status=live }} On the eve of its publication, she said: "This is kind of it, like there will never be a baby, but there's this freaking crossword puzzle, and I am very, very excited about it."{{cite news |last1=Kimbler |first1=Michaylah |title=Rachel Maddow Gushes About Her NYT Crossword |url=https://www.advocate.com/media/2018/3/02/rachel-maddow-gushes-about-her-nyt-crossword |work=The Advocate |date=March 2, 2018 |access-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111173733/https://www.advocate.com/media/2018/3/02/rachel-maddow-gushes-about-her-nyt-crossword |url-status=live }}

Maddow's second book Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth was published in October 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/magazine/rachel-maddow-trump.html|title=This Is the Moment Rachel Maddow Has Been Waiting For|last=Hess|first=Amanda|date=October 1, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 1, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=October 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001091012/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/magazine/rachel-maddow-trump.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/blowout-now-available|title=Blowout – Now available!|date=October 1, 2019|website=MSNBC|access-date=October 1, 2019|archive-date=October 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001204054/http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/blowout-now-available|url-status=live}} In March 2021, the audiobook version of Blowout, recorded by Maddow, won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.{{Cite web|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=2021-03-14|title=Grammy Movie Winners Include Billie Eilish For 'No Time To Die', 'Joker' Score, 'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice'|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/grammys-2021-movie-winners-billie-eilish-joker-linda-ronstadt-1234714096/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}

Her third book, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House,{{cite book |last1=Maddow |first1=Rachel |last2=Yarvitz |first2=Michael |title=Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House |date=2020 |location=New York |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0593136683 |edition=First}} written with Michael Yarvitz, was published in December 2020.

Maddow's fourth book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism was published on October 17, 2023. It is based on her podcast Ultra.{{cite news |title=In her next book 'Prequel,' Rachel Maddow will explore a WWII-era plot to overthrow US government |url=https://apnews.com/article/rachel-maddow-prequel-book-podcast-spielberg-0257657bef82055cbab93af7192cf1b9 |website=Associated Press}}

In October 2018, Maddow launched the podcast Bag Man, produced with MSNBC and focusing on the 1973 political scandal surrounding Vice President Spiro Agnew.{{cite web |last1=Steinberg |first1=Brian |date=November 16, 2018 |title=Rachel Maddow Quietly Tackles New Projects at MSNBC |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-podcast-documentary-1203030550/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223711/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-podcast-documentary-1203030550/ |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |access-date=January 23, 2019 |website=Variety}} A film adaptation of the podcast was announced to be in production in 2022, with Ben Stiller attached to direct and Lorne Michaels to produce, with Maddow set to be an executive producer.

In October 2022, Maddow and MSNBC launched Ultra, a podcast series chronicling U.S. right-wing extremism during the 1940s and World War II, including the 1944 sedition trial.{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=2022-10-03 |title=Rachel Maddow To Debut 'Ultra' Podcast In First Project Under NBCUniversal-MSNBC Deal |url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/rachel-maddow-podcast-msnbc-world-war-ii-1235133662/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |date=2022-10-09 |title="We Have Faced Threats This Big Before": Rachel Maddow's New Podcast Is a History Lesson on American Democracy Under Assault |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/rachel-maddows-podcast-is-a-history-lesson |access-date=2022-11-02 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} A few months later, in December, famed filmmaker Steven Spielberg's company optioned film rights to the series.{{Cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=2022-12-14 |title=Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment Developing Feature Based On Podcast 'Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra'; Tony Kushner And Danny Strong In Talks To Adapt |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/steven-spielberg-amblin-entertainment-rachel-maddow-presents-ultra-tony-kushner-danny-strong-1235198312/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

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A 2011 Hollywood Reporter profile of Maddow said she was able to deliver news "with agenda, but not hysteria".{{cite news|title=Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-243775|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=April 19, 2012|first=Marisa|last=Guthrie|date=October 5, 2011|archive-date=April 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430021153/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-243775|url-status=live}} A Newsweek profile said, "At her best, Maddow debates ideological opponents with civility and persistence ... but for all her eloquence, she can get so wound up ripping Republicans that she sounds like another smug cable partisan".{{Cite web |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |date=February 27, 2011 |title=Rachel Maddow Seizes Her Moment |url=https://www.newsweek.com/rachel-maddow-seizes-her-moment-68611 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205030454/https://www.newsweek.com/rachel-maddow-seizes-her-moment-68611 |archive-date=February 5, 2023 |access-date=December 11, 2024 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} The Baltimore Sun critic Howard Kurtz accused Maddow of acting like "a lockstep party member".{{cite web|title=You Were Expecting Olbermann? |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/02/27/you-were-expecting-olbermann.html |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=April 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414170533/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/02/27/you-were-expecting-olbermann.html |archive-date=April 14, 2012}} The editors of The New Republic similarly criticized her{{snd}}naming her among the "most over-rated thinkers" of 2011, they called her program "a textbook example of the intellectual limitations of a perfectly settled perspective".{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96141/over-rated-thinkers |title=Over-Rated Thinkers |author= |date=November 3, 2011 |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117045012/http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96141/over-rated-thinkers |url-status=live }}

On awarding her the Interfaith Alliance's Faith and Freedom Award named for Walter Cronkite, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy remarked that "Rachel's passionate coverage of the intersection of religion and politics exhibits a strong personal intellect coupled with constitutional sensitivity to the proper boundaries between religion and government."

Similarly, a 2008 Time profile described Maddow a "whip-smart, button-cute leftie". It said she radiates an essential decency and suggested her career rise might signify that "nice is the new nasty".{{cite news |title=Rachel Maddow: MSNBC's New Voice |url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1838192,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=April 19, 2012 |date=September 8, 2008 |archive-date=April 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422063712/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1838192,00.html |url-status=dead }}

Distinguishing herself from others on the left, Maddow has said she is a "national security liberal" and, in a different interview, that she is not "a partisan". The New York Times called her a "defense policy wonk".

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When asked about her political views in 2010 by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied, "I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican Party platform."

Maddow opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In February 2013, she said:

We say that Vietnam changed our politics forever. But less than 40 years after this, again, a campaign directed at the highest levels of government to get us to agree to a war based on something that did not happen the way they said it happened. It was a months-long campaign in 2002 and 2003, and it worked ... In three weeks, the CIA pulls together what normally takes months. It is delivered just seven days before the congressional vote ... By the end of 2002, the U.S. military is headed to the Gulf. Congress is on board, as are British Prime Minister Tony Blair and most of the mainstream media. The stage is set for war.{{cite news |title='The Rachel Maddow Show' for Monday, February 18th, 2013 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna50858893 |website=NBC News |date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029202014/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50858893/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/ |url-status=live }}

During the 2008 presidential election, Maddow did not formally support any candidate. Concerning Barack Obama's candidacy, Maddow said: "I have never and still don't think of myself as an Obama supporter, either professionally or actually."

In 2010, Republican Senator Scott Brown speculated that Maddow was going to run against him in the 2012 Senate election. His campaign used this premise for a fundraising email, although Maddow repeatedly said Brown's speculation was false. Brown continued to make his claims in the Boston media, so Maddow ran a full-page advertisement in The Boston Globe confirming that she was not running and separately demanded Brown's apology. She added that, despite repeated invitations over the months, Brown had refused to appear on her TV program. Ultimately, it was Elizabeth Warren who ran in 2012, defeating Brown.{{cite web |title=Maps: Complete 2012 Election Results |url=http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/06/complete-2012-election-results |website=WBUR |date=November 6, 2012 |access-date=November 19, 2012 |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112115651/http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/06/complete-2012-election-results |url-status=live }}

Maddow has suggested that the alleged Trump-Russia collusion has continued beyond the 2016 presidential election. In March 2017, she blamed Russia for WikiLeaks' Vault 7 disclosure of the CIA's hacking tools, saying: "Consider what the other U.S. agency is besides the State Department that Putin most hates? That Putin most feels competitive with? That Putin most wants to beat? It's the CIA, right? ... Smart observers say this is the largest dump of classified CIA material maybe ever, and it really could be a devastating blow to the CIA's cyber war and flat-out spying capabilities, and that dump was released by WikiLeaks."{{Cite news |url=https://theintercept.com/2017/04/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-sees-a-russia-connection-lurking-around-every-corner/ |title=MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Sees a "Russia Connection" Lurking Around Every Corner |date=April 12, 2017 |work=The Intercept |access-date=April 16, 2017 |archive-date=April 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416222130/https://theintercept.com/2017/04/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-sees-a-russia-connection-lurking-around-every-corner/ |url-status=live }} Regarding the Trump-Russia investigation, Maddow said: "If the Trump presidency is knowingly the product of a foreign-intelligence operation, that is a full-stop national crisis." Concerning "alternative facts" and fake news, Maddow said: "The president denigrating the press is important in terms of his behavior as an increasingly authoritarian-style leader, period."{{rp|56}}

Following the October 2018 murder of Saudi Arabian dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Maddow argued that Donald Trump's business ties to Saudi Arabia were raising some troubling questions.{{cite news |title=Rachel Maddow explains why Trump's business ties to Saudi Arabia leave him compromised |url=https://www.salon.com/2018/10/13/rachel-maddow-explains-why-trumps-business-ties-to-saudi-arabia-leave-him-compromised_partner/ |work=Salon |date=October 13, 2018 |access-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417084428/https://www.salon.com/2018/10/13/rachel-maddow-explains-why-trumps-business-ties-to-saudi-arabia-leave-him-compromised_partner/ |url-status=live }}

In December 2018, Maddow criticized President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.{{cite news |title=Trump's Syria withdrawal is a case study in post-policy governing |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-syria-withdrawal-case-study-post-policy-governing |website=MSNBC |date=December 20, 2018 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=February 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217162524/http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-syria-withdrawal-case-study-post-policy-governing |url-status=live }}

In July 2020, Maddow predicted that unemployment figures covering the previous month would be "absolutely terrible"; after the figures were released, showing the largest growth in employment in a single month in U.S. history, Politico named Maddow's prediction one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year".{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444|title=The Worst Predictions of 2020|date=December 29, 2020|access-date=December 30, 2020|work=Politico|first=Zack|last=Stanton}}

In May 2021, former New York Times reporter Barry Meier published Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies, which cited the Steele dossier as a case study in how reporters can be manipulated by private intelligence sources. Meier named Maddow as one example.{{cite web|last=Frank|first=T.A.|date=2021-07-14|title='The Steele Dossier Was a Case Study in How Reporters Get Manipulated'|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/steele-dossier-was-case-study-in-journalistic-manipulation.html|work=New York|accessdate=2021-07-18}}

Maddow splits her time between Manhattan in New York City, and West Cummington, Massachusetts, with her partner, artist Susan Mikula. They met in 1999, when Maddow was working on her doctoral dissertation.

Maddow has dealt with cyclical depression since puberty.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWfyNNn06k|title=Cable news headliner Rachel Maddow|author=CBS Sunday Morning|date=May 15, 2016|website=YouTube|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120142144/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWfyNNn06k|url-status=live}} In a 2012 interview, she stated, "It doesn't take away from my joy or my work or my energy, but coping with depression is something that is part of the everyday way that I live and have lived for as long as I can remember."{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/03/27/148611615/rachel-maddow-the-fresh-air-interview |title=Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview |first=Rachel |last=Maddow |date=March 27, 2012 |website=NPR.org |access-date=July 22, 2017 |archive-date=July 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703193732/http://www.npr.org/2012/03/27/148611615/rachel-maddow-the-fresh-air-interview |url-status=live }} She has explained why she decided to speak about it in interviews: "It was a hard call ... Because it was nobody's business. But it had been helpful to me to learn about the people who were surviving, were leading good lives, even though they were dealing with depression. So I felt it was a bit of a responsibility to pay that back."{{Cite magazine |last=Malcolm |first=Janet |date=October 9, 2017 |title=The Storyteller (web version titled 'Rachel Maddow: Trump's TV Nemesis') |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/rachel-maddow-trumps-tv-nemesis |magazine=The New Yorker |page=45 |access-date=December 12, 2017 |archive-date=December 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084754/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/rachel-maddow-trumps-tv-nemesis |url-status=live }}

Maddow said, "There are three things I do to stay sane: I exercise, I sleep{{snd}}I'm a good sleeper{{snd}}and I fish."{{rp|56}} She is also a practicing Catholic.{{Cite web |date=2019-10-14 |title=Episode 1062 - Rachel Maddow |url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1062-rachel-maddow |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast |language=en-US}}

In 2021, Maddow had surgery to remove a cancerous skin growth from her neck.{{Cite web|last=Brisco|first=Elise|title=MSNBC'S Rachel Maddow undergoes surgery for skin cancer: 'You should get checked'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/10/07/rachel-maddow-skin-cancer-mole-checked-show/6032440001/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}

• 2023 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism for her podcast, Ultra.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-17 |title=Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra |url=https://hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/2023-hillman-prize-broadcast-journalism |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=Hillman Foundation |language=en}} “Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. Recipients exemplify reportorial excellence, storytelling skill, and social justice impact.”{{Cite web |date=2013-04-12 |title=The Hillman Prize for Journalism |url=https://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prize-journalism |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=Hillman Foundation |language=en}} This was the first time the prize has gone to a podcast.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-10 |title=Rachel Maddow's World War II Era-Themed Podcast Wins Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rachel-maddows-world-war-ii-era-themed-podcast-wins-hillman-prize-for-broadcast-journalism/530374/ |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=www.adweek.com |language=en-US}}
• 2020 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for her podcast, Bagman.{{Cite web |title=Revisiting 2020 duPont-Columbia Award-Winner, Rachel Maddow |url=https://dupont.org/news-and-updates/rachel-maddow-and-mike-yarvitz-on |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=duPont-Columbia Awards |language=en-US}} The award “honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service and is considered one of the most prestigious awards in journalism.” It's "considered by some to be the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, another program administered by Columbia University."{{Cite web |title=Columbia News |url=https://news.columbia.edu/ |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=news.columbia.edu |language=en}}
• 2018 Peabody Award nomination for her podcast, Bagman (“In-depth investigation and historic look by Rachel Maddow and Mike Yarvitz at the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, the brash politician who waged an all-out assault on the public officials who uncovered his criminal past and those who reported on it.”){{Cite web |title=Bag Man |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/bag-man/ |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=The Peabody Awards |language=en-US}}
• 2017 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Live Interview category for The Rachel Maddow Show segment "One-on-One with Kellyanne Conway".{{cite web |title=Winners at the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards |date=October 5, 2017 |page=14 |website=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |url=http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_38th_winners.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170125/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_38th_winners.pdf |archive-date=October 7, 2017 |ref={{harvid|"Winners at the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"}}}}
• 2017 Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for The Rachel Maddow Show story "An American Disaster: The Crisis in Flint".{{sfn|"Winners at the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"|page=13}}
• 2011 Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for The Rachel Maddow Show segments "Good Morning Landlocked Central Asia!".{{cite web |last=Femia |first=Will |date=September 6, 2011 |title=Good Morning Landlocked Central Asia! |website=MSNBC |location=New York, NY |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/good-morning-landlocked-central-asia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504103928/http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/good-morning-landlocked-central-asia |archive-date=May 4, 2017}}
• Maddow was named in Out magazine's "Out 100" list of the "gay men and women who moved culture" in 2008.
• Maddow was voted "Lesbian/Bi Woman of the Year (American)" in AfterEllen's 2008 Visibility Awards.
• Maddow won a Gracie Award in 2009, presented by the American Women in Radio and Television.
• In 2009, Maddow was nominated for GLAAD's 20th Annual Media Awards for a segment of her MSNBC show, "Rick Warren, Change To Believe In?", in the Outstanding TV Journalism Segment category.
• On March 28, 2009, Maddow received a Proclamation of Honor from the California State Senate, presented in San Francisco by California State Senator Mark Leno.
• In April 2009, she was listed at No. 4 in Out magazine's Annual Power 50 List.
• Maddow placed sixth in the "2009 AfterEllen.com Hot 100" list (May 11, 2009) and third in its "2009 Hot 100: Out Women" version.
• Maddow was included on a list of openly gay media professionals in The Advocate{{'}}s "Forty under 40" issue of June/July 2009.
• In 1994, Maddow received an Honorable Mention in the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics.
• In June 2009, Maddow's MSNBC show was the only cable news show nominated for a Television Critics Association award in the Outstanding Achievement in News and Information category.
• In March 2010, Maddow won at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in the category of Outstanding TV Journalism{{snd}}Newsmagazine for her segment, "Uganda Be Kidding Me".
• In May 2010, Maddow was the 2010 commencement speaker and was given an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=http://www.smith.edu/collegerelations/honorary.php |title=Honorary Degrees From Smith College |website=Smith College |access-date=October 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528070612/http://www.smith.edu/collegerelations/honorary.php |archive-date=May 28, 2010}}
• In July 2010, Maddow was presented with a Maggie Award for her ongoing reporting of healthcare reform, the murder of Dr. George Tiller, and the anti-abortion movement.{{cite web|url=http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/rachel-maddow-glamour-magazine-ajcs-cynthia-tucker-among-planned-parenthoods-2010-maggie-award-33161.htm|title=Rachel Maddow, Glamour Magazine, and the AJC's Cynthia Tucker Among Planned Parenthood's 2010 Maggie Award Winners|date=July 16, 2010|website=Planned Parenthood|access-date=July 19, 2010|archive-date=July 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720154633/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/rachel-maddow-glamour-magazine-ajcs-cynthia-tucker-among-planned-parenthoods-2010-maggie-award-33161.htm|url-status=live}}
• In August 2010, Maddow won the Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award, which was presented by the Interfaith Alliance.{{cite news |first=Alissa |last=Krinsky |url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rachel-maddow-wins-walter-cronkite-faith-freedom-award/24534 |title=Rachel Maddow Wins Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award |work=TV Newser |date=August 22, 2010 |access-date=October 8, 2015 |archive-date=January 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109221818/http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rachel-maddow-wins-walter-cronkite-faith-freedom-award/24534 |url-status=live }} Past honorees included Larry King, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings.
• In February 2012, Maddow was presented the John Steinbeck Award by the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.{{Cite news |url=http://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/past_events/ |title=Steinbeck Center Past Events |website=San José State University |date=February 25, 2012 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |archive-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630192235/http://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/past_events/ |url-status=live }}
• Maddow was named Outstanding Host at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.thegracies.org/2012-grace-awards.php |title=2012 Gracie Awards |website=thegracies.org |access-date=October 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004200507/http://thegracies.org/2012-grace-awards.php |archive-date=October 4, 2012}}
• In December 2017 The Advocate named her as a finalist for its "Person of the Year".{{cite web |url=https://www.advocate.com/people/2017/12/22/person-year-transgender-americans?pg=4#article-content |title=Person of the Year: Transgender Americans |website=Advocate.com |date=July 20, 2017 |access-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225092232/https://www.advocate.com/people/2017/12/22/person-year-transgender-americans?pg=4#article-content |url-status=live }}
• In 2021, Fast Company included her on their second Queer 50 list.{{Cite web|title=Announcing Fast Company's second annual Queer 50 list|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/queer-50/2021|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}
• In late 2024, Maddow was named one of America's 10 best TV news journalists by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The organization, purveyors of the Dorian Awards to mainstream and LGBTQ-themed content, said its "members clearly appreciate how Maddow lays out information and exposes disinformation in her fights against kleptocracy and fascism."Adweek, October 25, 2024, by Mark Mwachiro [https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/washington-post-los-angeles-times-not-endorse-candidate/ "Ticker: The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times Will Not Endorse a Presidential Candidate"]Los Angeles Blade November 7, 2024, [https://www.losangelesblade.com/2024/11/07/galeca-kicks-off-awards-season-with-a-spotlight-on-top-tv-news-journalists/]

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Tracey Ullman played Maddow in her Showtime comedy series Tracey Ullman's State of the Union. Maddow invited Ullman on her show and interviewed her in January 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2010-01-28|title=The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 01/28/10|date=January 29, 2010|website=MSNBC.com|access-date=April 21, 2018|archive-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421163101/http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2010-01-28|url-status=live}}

Abby Elliott and Melissa Villasenor have both played Maddow in sketches on Saturday Night Live.{{cite web|url=http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/abby-elliott-14681/impersonation/rachel-maddow-78396|title=Watch Rachel Maddow Sketches From SNL Played By Abby Elliott|website=NBC|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120142145/https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/abby-elliott-14681/impersonation/rachel-maddow-78396|url-status=live}}

Maddow appeared as a character on the November 3, 2013 episode of The Simpsons, "Four Regrettings and a Funeral".{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/08/Rachel-Maddow-Simpsons-cameo-the-pinnacle-of-my-existence/8851383924616/ |title=Rachel Maddow: Simpsons cameo the 'pinnacle of my existence' |date=November 8, 2013 |website=UPI.com |access-date=July 22, 2017 |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927000318/https://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/08/Rachel-Maddow-Simpsons-cameo-the-pinnacle-of-my-existence/8851383924616/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/rachel-maddow-simpsons-best-new-thing_n_4190383.html|title=Rachel Maddow Reveals 'Simpsons' Cameo (VIDEO)|first=Catherine|last=Taibi|date=November 1, 2013|website=Huffington Post|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615154658/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/rachel-maddow-simpsons-best-new-thing_n_4190383.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/202234-watch-now-rachel-maddow-talks-enda-and-the-simpsons-on-fallon |title=Watch now! Rachel Maddow talks ENDA and "The Simpsons" on "Fallon" |first=Trish |last=Bendix |date=November 8, 2013 |website=AfterEllen |access-date=July 22, 2017 |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052314/http://www.afterellen.com/tv/202234-watch-now-rachel-maddow-talks-enda-and-the-simpsons-on-fallon |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2013-10-31|title=The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 10/31/13|date=November 2013|website=msnbc.com|access-date=July 22, 2017|archive-date=September 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235448/http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2013-10-31|url-status=live}}

Maddow appeared at the start of "Trump: The Rusical" on RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 as the star of a mini-challenge where the contestants had to dress up as Maddow and read from a teleprompter.{{Cite web |url=http://www.towleroad.com/2019/03/trump-drag-race/ |title=Trump Ruins Everything, Even 'RuPaul's Drag Race' [Recap and Rankings] |date=March 22, 2019 |website=Towleroad Gay News |language=en-US |access-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401113747/http://www.towleroad.com/2019/03/trump-drag-race/ |url-status=live }}

Maddow is the voice of Vesper Fairchild in the television series Batwoman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rachel-maddow-will-lend-her-voice-to-the-cws-batwoman/416736|title=Rachel Maddow Will Lend Her Voice to The CW's Batwoman|date=October 4, 2019|website=TVNewser|language=en-US|access-date=October 21, 2019|archive-date=October 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021192457/https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rachel-maddow-will-lend-her-voice-to-the-cws-batwoman/416736/|url-status=live}} In March 2010 she wrote the introduction to the Batwoman: Elegy trade paperback, in which she noted her appreciation for the work of writer Greg Rucka.Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III, Batwoman: Elegy, introduction by Rachel Maddow (DC Comics, 2010). She appeared as herself on the Netflix series House of Cards.{{Cite web|last=Lowry|first=Brian|date=2014-01-30|title=TV Review: 'House of Cards' – Season Two|url=https://variety.com/2014/digital/reviews/review-house-of-cards-1201076822/|access-date=2020-12-03|website=Variety|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Goldstein|first=Jessica|title=House of Cards Recap: Under His Eye|url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/06/house-of-cards-recap-season-5-episode-11.html|access-date=2020-12-03|website=Vulture|date=May 31, 2017 |language=en-us}}

Maddow also makes a cameo as herself in the 2023 romance film Red, White & Royal Blue.{{Cite web |title=Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) - Cast & Crew on MUBI |url=https://mubi.com/en/films/red-white-royal-blue/cast |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212165105/https://mubi.com/en/films/red-white-royal-blue/cast |archive-date=December 12, 2024 |access-date=December 12, 2024 |website=MUBI}}

• {{cite book |last=Maddow |first=Rachel |title=Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power |publisher=Crown |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-307-46098-1 |title-link=Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power}}
• {{cite book |last=Maddow |first=Rachel |title=Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth |publisher=Crown |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-525-57547-4 |title-link=Blowout (book)}}
• {{cite book |last1=Maddow |first1=Rachel |last2=Yarvitz |first2=Michael |title=Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House |year=2020 |publisher=Crown |isbn=9780593136683}}
• {{Cite book|last=Maddow|first=Rachel|title=Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism|publisher=Crown|year=2023|isbn=9780593444511}}

• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of LGBT people from New York City
• New Yorkers in journalism
• United States cable news
• Women's liberation movement

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{{cite web |url=http://www.airamerica.com/content/rachel-maddow-renews-air-america-media |title=Rachel Maddow Renews With Air America Media |date=February 2, 2009 |work=Air America.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209201853/http://airamerica.com/content/rachel-maddow-renews-air-america-media |archive-date=February 9, 2009}}

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{{cite news |first=Tyler |last=Finn |publisher=CBS News |title=Rachel Maddow: Scott Brown Claim I'm Running for Office Not True |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-scott-brown-claim-im-running-for-office-not-true/ |date=March 26, 2010 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-date=January 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109221819/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-maddow-scott-brown-claim-im-running-for-office-not-true/ |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Linkins |work=The Huffington Post |title=Scott Brown Is Not Letting This Rachel Maddow Electoral Fantasy Go |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/scott-brown-is-not-lettin_n_513401.html |date=March 25, 2010 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327175652/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/scott-brown-is-not-lettin_n_513401.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite news|first=Jessica |last=Heslam |work=Boston Herald |title=Rachel Maddow slams 'creep' Scott Brown; Rips fund-raising on Dem-fueled rumor |date=March 26, 2010 |url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20100326rachel_maddow_slams_creep_scott_brown_rips_fund-raising_on_dem-fueled_rumor/srvc=home&position=1 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329015321/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20100326rachel_maddow_slams_creep_scott_brown_rips_fund-raising_on_dem-fueled_rumor/srvc%3Dhome%26position%3D1 |archive-date=March 29, 2010}}

{{cite news |first=Matthew |last=Gilbert |work=The Boston Globe |title=Maddow vs. Brown in 2012? Nope. |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2010/03/rachel_maddow_i.html |date=March 24, 2010 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327205306/http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2010/03/rachel_maddow_i.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite news|url=http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/v-print/story/661526.html |work=Kansas City Star |title=MSNBC's Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow are young, geeky and hot |first=Aaron |last=Barnhart |date=June 15, 2008 |page=G1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619062016/http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/v-print/story/661526.html |archive-date=June 19, 2008}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/ethicsprizewinners.aspx |title=Past Years Winners: Media |website=Elie Wiesel Foundation.org |access-date=November 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122164638/http://eliewieselfoundation.org/ethicsprizewinners.aspx |archive-date=November 22, 2010 }}

{{cite news |last=France |first=Louise |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/08/rachel-maddow-american-television |title=Interview: 'I'm not a TV anchor babe. I'm a big lesbian who looks like a man' |newspaper=The Observer |date=February 8, 2009 |location=London |access-date=December 16, 2016 |archive-date=February 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221141201/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/08/rachel-maddow-american-television |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-29-et-maddow29-story.html |title=MSNBC's new liberal spark plug |last=Gold |first=Matea |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 29, 2008 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |archive-date=January 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105222559/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/29/entertainment/et-maddow29 |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |work=Out Magazine |url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/2008/11/02/men-women-who-made-2008 |title=The Out 100: The Men & Women Who Made 2008 |date=November 2, 2008 |access-date=October 4, 2012 |archive-date=May 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511212348/http://www.out.com/entertainment/2008/11/02/men-women-who-made-2008 |url-status=live }}

{{cite web |title=Television Critics Association Announces 2009 Award Nominees |date=June 3, 2009 |website=TV Critics.org |url=http://tvcritics.org/television-critics-association-announces-2009-award-nominees/ |access-date=June 5, 2009 |archive-date=December 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223131758/http://tvcritics.org/television-critics-association-announces-2009-award-nominees/ |url-status=live }}

{{cite magazine |url=http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/03/14/glaad-awards-brothers-sisters-parks-recreation/ |title='Brothers and Sisters' and 'Parks and Recreation' among winners at GLAAD Media Awards |last=Ram |first=Archana |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=March 14, 2010 |access-date=March 15, 2010 |archive-date=July 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703015725/http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/03/14/glaad-awards-brothers-sisters-parks-recreation/ |url-status=live }}

{{cite web |title=The AfterEllen.com 2008 Visibility Awards |website=AfterEllen.com |url=http://www.afterellen.com/TV/2008/12/visibilityawards |date=December 24, 2008 |access-date=June 19, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501111408/http://www.afterellen.com/TV/2008/12/visibilityawards |archive-date=May 1, 2010}}

{{cite web |first=David |last=Tanklefsky |title=Rachel Maddow, Suze Orman Among the Winners of AWRT's Gracie Awards |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/179792-Rachel_Maddow_Suze_Orman_Among_the_Winners_of_AWRT_s_Gracie_Awards.php |date=February 24, 2009 |access-date=March 6, 2009 |archive-date=February 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228091154/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/179792-Rachel_Maddow_Suze_Orman_Among_the_Winners_of_AWRT_s_Gracie_Awards.php |url-status=live }}

{{cite web|title=Twentieth Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominees |website=Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation |url=http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/20thAnnual/nominees.php |date=January 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412210906/http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/20thAnnual/nominees.php |archive-date=April 12, 2009}}

{{cite web |title=Rachel Maddow, California State Senator Mark Leno and Mother Jones President/Publisher Jay Harris |work=Mother Jones |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/motherjones/3398767311/ |date=March 28, 2009 |access-date=April 23, 2016 |archive-date=January 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109221819/https://www.flickr.com/photos/motherjones/3398767311/ |url-status=live }}

{{cite web|url=http://out.com/power50/index.asp?pagenumber=4 |title=3rd Annual Power 50 | 4. Rachel Maddow |website=Out.com |date=June 23, 2008 |access-date=November 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417123004/http://out.com/power50/index.asp?pagenumber=4 |archive-date=April 17, 2010}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/hot100?page=0%2C1 |title=The 2009 AfterEllen.com Hot 100 |date=May 11, 2009 |website=AfterEllen |access-date=May 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514055900/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/hot100?page=0%2C1 |archive-date=May 14, 2009}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/outwomen |title=The 2009 AfterEllen.com Hot 100: Out Women |website=AfterEllen.com |date=April 25, 2009 |access-date=November 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330224929/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/outwomen |archive-date=March 30, 2010}}

{{cite web|url=https://www.advocate.com/search/site/Forty%20Under%2040%3A%20Media |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913114354/https://www.advocate.com/search/site/Forty%20Under%2040%3A%20Media |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |title=Forty Under 40: Media |website=Advocate.com |access-date=November 14, 2009}}

{{cite news |work=The Huffington Post |title=Rachel Maddow Ratings: Beats Olbermann's "Countdown" To Be MSNBC's Top Show |first=Danny |last=Shae |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/rachel-maddow-ratings-bea_n_127391.html |date=September 18, 2008 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=August 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813051144/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/rachel-maddow-ratings-bea_n_127391.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |website=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24729773 |title=Countdown with Keith Olbermann May 19, 2008 |first=Keith |last=Olbermann |date=May 19, 2008 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120142145/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24729773 |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603069.html |title=Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's Newest Left Hand |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 27, 2008 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422093454/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603069.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite journal |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/rachel-maddows-life-and-career |title=Rachel Maddow's Life and Career |journal=The Nation |last=Traister |first=Rebecca |date=July 30, 2008 |access-date=March 10, 2009 |archive-date=June 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618062243/http://www.thenation.com/article/rachel-maddows-life-and-career |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |last=Baird |first=Julia |title=When Left is Right |work=Newsweek |date=November 22, 2008 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/170385/page/3 |access-date=August 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090613065601/http://www.newsweek.com/id/170385/page/3 |archive-date=June 13, 2009}}

{{cite news |title=Fresh Face on Cable, Sharp Rise in Ratings |first=Brian |last=Stelter |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 21, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/television/21madd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin |page=C1 |access-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-date=June 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611083117/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/television/21madd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |date=August 19, 2008 |url=http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/rachel-maddow-to-replace-dan-abrams-on-msnbc/ |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Rachel Maddow to Replace Dan Abrams on MSNBC |first=Bill |last=Carter |access-date=August 19, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090304085854/http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/rachel-maddow-to-replace-dan-abrams-on-msnbc/ |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=A Fresh Female Face Amid Cable Schoolboys |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/television/25watc.html |first=Alessandra |last=Stanley |date=September 25, 2008 |access-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-date=March 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324231420/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/television/25watc.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/television/17madd.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin |title=Now in Living Rooms, the Host Apparent |first=Jacques |last=Steinberg |date=July 17, 2008 |access-date=July 17, 2008 |archive-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229114355/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/television/17madd.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |first=Larry |last=Parnass |newspaper=Daily Hampshire Gazette |url=http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp_v6.cfm?id_no=61501202005 |title=Maddow joins new program on MSNBC |date=June 15, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081224043255/http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp_v6.cfm?id_no=61501202005 |archive-date=December 24, 2008 }}

{{cite news |last=Maddow |first=Robert B. |title="Water Supply, Water Rights and Other Legal Issues at the East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1972-1993," an oral history conducted by Germaine LaBerge |website=University of California Berkeley |date=February 3, 1997 |url=https://archive.org/stream/watersupplyrights00maddrich/watersupplyrights00maddrich_djvu.txt |access-date=August 2, 2009}}

{{cite news |work=Southern Voice Atlanta |title=Two 'L-words'; Morning host adds 'lesbian' to 'liberal' radio's success |url=http://www.sovo.com/2005/1-28/arts/feature/lwords.cfm |date=January 28, 2005 |first=Dyana |last=Bagby |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918215122/http://www.sovo.com/2005/1-28/arts/feature/lwords.cfm |archive-date=September 18, 2008}}

{{cite news |work=Stanford Magazine |title=Making Airwaves: Broadcaster Rachel Maddow is succeeding at her goal of 'lefty rabblerousing' |url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/mayjun/pc/maddow.html |date=May–June 2008 |first=Barrett |last=Sheridan |access-date=September 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507083904/http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=32080 |archive-date=May 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/television/17madd.html?scp=6&sq=rachel%20maddow&st=cse |title=Now in Living Rooms, the Host Apparent |last=Steinberg |first=Jacques |work=The New York Times |date=July 17, 2008 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |archive-date=April 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402081404/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/television/17madd.html?scp=6&sq=rachel%20maddow&st=cse |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |url=https://valleyadvocate.com/2010/05/06/wonk-and-circumstance/ |title=Wonk and Circumstance |last=Sturm |first=Tom |work=The Valley Advocate |date=May 6, 2010 |access-date=June 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203080207/http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11725 |archive-date=February 3, 2014}}

{{cite news |first=Christopher |last=Goodwin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/28/television.rachel.maddow |title=Gay TV host is liberal queen of US news |newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 28, 2008 |access-date=March 11, 2010 |location=London |archive-date=September 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902231524/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/28/television.rachel.maddow |url-status=live }}

{{cite news|date=May 16, 2008 |work=TV Newser |title=The Scoreboard: Friday, May 16 |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_friday_may_16_85159.asp#more |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528013015/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_friday_may_16_85159.asp |archive-date=May 28, 2009}}

{{cite book |first=Xander |last=Cricket |title=Rachel Maddow: A Neowonk Guide to the Leftist, Lesbian Pundit |year=2009 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1-4421-2267-3}}

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