Steve Phillips is a New York Times bestselling author, columnist, and national political thought leader. He is the author of Brown Is the New White as well as Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else? (both from The New Press); he is also the founder of Democracy in Color, a political media organization dedicated to race, politics, and the multicultural New American Majority. Phillips is the host of Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips, a color-conscious podcast on politics. He is a regular columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.