Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty.
Mar 14, 2012
Randy Hertz Randy Hertz
Randy Hertz is the Vice Dean of the NYU School of Law and Director of the law school’s clinical program.
Mar 13, 2012
Maya Wiley Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley is the founder and President of the Center for Social Inclusion. A civil rights attorney and policy advocate, Maya has litigated, lobbied the U.S. Congress and developed programs to transform structural racism in the U.S. and in South Africa. Follow her work on Twitter at @MayaWiley. Follow the the Center for Social Inclusion on Twitter at @theCSI and on Facebook here.
Mar 8, 2012
Larry Derfner Larry Derfner
Larry Derfner is an Israeli journalist who blogs for +972 magazine and contributes to Salon, Tablet, the Forward and other publications.
Mar 8, 2012
Elizabeth Mitchell Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell, a political journalist, is the author of W.: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty (Hyperion) and former executive editor of George magazine.
Mar 7, 2012
Chucho Mendoza Chucho Mendoza
Chucho Mendoza is a Chicano and Latin American Studies Major at California State University - Fresno, and is part of the ReFund California coalition, a statewide coalition of students, teachers, homeowners, and faith leaders working to make Wall Street and the 1% pay to solve the economic crisis they created.
Mar 6, 2012
Antonia Juhasz Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz is covering the historic trial against BP for The Nation with support from The Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. She is a leading oil and energy analyst and author of several books, including Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (Wiley, 2011). Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Mar 6, 2012
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto are The Nation’s puzzlers. To read more about Kosman, click here. To read more about Picciotto, click here. Check out The Nation’s Current Issue page each week for the latest puzzle. Also be sure to check out Kosman and Picciotto’s blog, Word Salad for Kosman and Picciotto on their Nation puzzle, cryptic crosswords, wordplay and puzzles in general.
Mar 6, 2012