Authors

Diala Shamas Diala Shamas

Diala Shamas is a staff attorney at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, based out of Main Street Legal Services at CUNY School of Law. CLEAR works to meet the legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian and other communities in New York City that are particularly affected by counterterrorism policies and practices. Follow them on Twitter: @CUNY_CLEAR.

Oct 31, 2013

Harmon Leon Harmon Leon

Harmon Leon is the author of six books, including The American Dream, The Harmon Chronicles and Republican Like Me. His work has appeared in Esquire, Maxim, Salon, NPR’s This American Life, Details, Maxim, High Times, Penthouse, BlackBook, Cosmopolitan and Wired. 

Oct 30, 2013

Mike Riggs Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs writes about criminal justice and other issues for the Atlantic Cities.  

Oct 30, 2013

Carl L. Hart Carl L. Hart

Carl L. Hart, an associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, is the author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

Oct 30, 2013

Martin A. Lee Martin A. Lee

Martin A. Lee, the author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational and Scientific, is a co-founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) and the director of Project CBD, a  medical-science information service that focuses on cannabis therapeutics.

Oct 30, 2013

Nick Pinto Nick Pinto

Nick Pinto is a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn who writes about criminal justice, civil liberties, and radical politics, among other topics. He can be reached at nickpinto.net.

Oct 30, 2013

Landon R.Y. Storrs Landon R.Y. Storrs

Landon R.Y. Storrs is an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa and the author of The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Princeton).

Oct 30, 2013

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a former business reporter with Reuters. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Dissent and n+1. She is also an editor of the New Inquiry. Find her on Twitter @atossaaraxia.

Oct 29, 2013

Shawn Carrie Shawn Carrie

Shawn Carrie is a communicator and a culturejammer interested in open data, open source documentation, and communication structures that facilitate the free flow of information, communication, creativity and democracy.

Oct 25, 2013

Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen is an American cartoonist and illustrator who authors a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. Her work appears on the web…

Oct 23, 2013

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