Authors

Melissa Gira Grant Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is a writer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, the Guardian, The Nation, Wired, and The Atlantic. She is also a contributing editor to Jacobin. Her website is melissagiragrant.com.

Jul 17, 2012

Soumya Karlamangla Soumya Karlamangla

Soumya Karlamangla is a Summer 2012 intern at The Nation. She has written on climate change and the environment for the Thomson Reuters Foundation's AlertNet news site in London, and was most recently a news editor at The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's student newspaper. 

Jul 17, 2012

David Vine David Vine

David Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has written for the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Guardian, and Mother Jones, among other places. He is currently completing a book about the more than 1,000 U.S. military bases located outside the United States.

Jul 16, 2012

Eric Murphy Eric Murphy

Eric Murphy is a journalism intern with Campus Progress.

Jul 13, 2012

StudentNation StudentNation

Campus-oriented news, first-person reports from student activists and journalists about their campus.

Jul 12, 2012

Jean Casella Jean Casella

Jean Casella edits Solitary Watch (solitarywatch.com), with James Ridgeway. She is a 2012 Soros Justice Media Fellow and also writes frequently about criminal justice issues for Mother Jones.

Jul 11, 2012

Matthew Cunningham-Cook Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Matthew Cunningham-Cook was a Nation intern in the summer of 2012. An activist and reporter in the labor movement, he has worked with Labor Notes, AFSCME, and the UAW.

Jul 5, 2012

Deepa Kumar Deepa Kumar

Deepa Kumar is an associate professor of Media Studies and Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike and Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.

Jul 2, 2012

Nan Levinson Nan Levinson

Nan Levinson, a Boston-based journalist, reports on civil liberties, politics, and culture. Her next book, War Is Not a Game, is about the recent G.I. antiwar movement. She is the author of Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, was the U.S. correspondent for Index on Censorship, and teaches journalism and fiction writing at Tufts University.

Jun 28, 2012

Clara Gutteridge Clara Gutteridge

Clara Gutteridge is a human rights investigator who documents national security–related abuses in the East and Horn of Africa. She was formerly resident fellow at the Open Society Justice Initiative and Deputy Director of the Secret Prisons team at Reprieve. Follow her on Twitter at @GutteridgeClara.  

Jun 27, 2012

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