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