Alfred McCoy Alfred McCoy

Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, which is the source for much of the material in this essay.

Jan 21, 2014

Nir Elias Nir Elias

Jan 15, 2014

Adam Plunkett Adam Plunkett

Adam Plunkett is assistant literary editor of The New Republic.

Jan 15, 2014

Jerzy Ficowski Jerzy Ficowski

Jan 14, 2014

Anna-Lisa Castle Anna-Lisa Castle

Anna-Lisa Castle writes regularly for the [young}ist.

Jan 14, 2014

Amanda Ufheil-Somers Amanda Ufheil-Somers

Amanda Ufheil-Somers is the assistant editor of Middle East Report, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project.

Jan 13, 2014

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte is a singer, songwriter, actor and activist.

Jan 10, 2014

Connor Durkin Connor Durkin

Connor Durkin is an undergraduate student reporter at the NYU Local.

Jan 9, 2014

Matt Taylor Matt Taylor

Matt Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer whose political reporting has appeared in Slate, Salon, The New Republic, NYMag.com, Capital New York, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, and Vice, among other publications. You can follow him on Twitter @matthewt_ny.

Jan 8, 2014

Theresa Amato Theresa Amato

Theresa Amato is executive director of Citizens Works and the director of its Fair Contracts Project.

Jan 8, 2014