Erica Funkhouser Erica Funkhouser

Erica Funkhouser's most recent book of poems is Earthly (Houghton Mifflin).  

May 18, 2011

Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist. Her most recent book of poems in an English translation is Alphabets of Sands (Carcanet)

May 18, 2011

Julie Margetta Morgan Julie Margetta Morgan

May 17, 2011

People For the American Way People For the American Way

May 16, 2011

Peter Van Buren Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, was published in 2011, and his latest book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent, has just been published.

May 16, 2011

Amy Hanauer Amy Hanauer

Amy Hanauer, executive director of Policy Matters Ohio (policymattersohio.org), works in Cleveland.

May 11, 2011

PBS PBS

PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations—noncommercial, educational licensees that operate nearly 360 PBS member stations and serve all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.

May 11, 2011

Rep. Walter Jones Rep. Walter Jones

Currently, serving his 9th term in Congress, Rep. Walter Jones is a Republican from North Carolina. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. He represents a district that includes Camp LeJeune and other military installations, and has concentrated on safeguarding the well being of our nation's veterans and our men and women on active duty.

May 10, 2011

Joshua E.S. Phillips Joshua E.S. Phillips

Joshua E.S. Phillips is a journalist, producer and author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture (Verso).

May 10, 2011

Maria da Silva Maria da Silva

Maria da Silva is a research associate for the Center’s Democracy Program.

May 6, 2011