Ben Domenech is an American conservative writer and blogger who co-founded the RedState group blog. Domenech is also the managing editor for health care policy at The Heartland Institute, editor-in-chief of The City, and hosts a daily free market podcast, "Coffee and Markets," at BigGovernment. He also authors a subscription-based daily email focused on politics and economics called The Transom. In 2006, he was involved in a plagiarism controversy.