John Heilemann is special correspondent and host of the podcast Impolitic with John Heilemann at Puck, national affairs analyst at NBC News and MSNBC, and co-host of the podcast Hacks On Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy. From 2015 to 2023, Heilemann was a host and executive producer of Showtime’s weekly political documentary series The Circus. In 2019, he co-founded the pioneering online video news start-up The Recount and served as its executive editor before selling the company four years later. During the 2016 election cycle, he co-hosted the daily MSNBC and Bloomberg TV show With All Due Respect and served as managing editor of Bloomberg Politics. A former staff writer for New York, The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist, Heilemann is the co-author of Game Change and Double Down (about the 2008 and 2012 elections, respectively) and author of Pride Before The Fall (about the Microsoft antitrust case).