Elias Muhanna Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna, a PhD student in Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard University, blogs as Qifa Nabki.

Jul 14, 2010

Melanie Breault Melanie Breault

Melanie Breault was a Web intern at The Nation during the summer of 2010. She is a student at Ithaca College in upstate New York and a freelance writer. Follow her on Twitter @mbreaul1.

Jul 14, 2010

Both Sides Now Both Sides Now

Jul 12, 2010

Nicholas Jahr Nicholas Jahr

Nicholas Jahr is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn who worked as a long-term observer of Liberia's 2005 elections. He is a member of the editorial board of Jewish Currents, and a founding editor of the Crumpled Press.

Jul 8, 2010

Aaron Ross Aaron Ross

Aaron Ross is a West Africa–based journalist. His work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, Mother Jones and online at the Global Post.

Jul 7, 2010

CAN TV CAN TV

Jul 6, 2010

Senator Tom Harkin Senator Tom Harkin

Senator Tom Harkin is chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.

Jun 30, 2010

Robert B. Reich Robert B. Reich

Robert B. Reich, a former secretary of labor, is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Beyond Outrage. His award-winning film, Inequality for All, is available on Netflix and other video-streaming services as well as on DVD.

Jun 30, 2010

David Pedulla David Pedulla

David Pedulla is a doctoral candidate in sociology and social policy at Princeton who is studying the impact of the growth in contingent work on labor-market insecurity.

Jun 30, 2010

Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson

Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard, has worked on race, culture and poverty in the United States and the Caribbean as well as the history of freedom and slavery. He currently directs a collaborative study of African-American youth. His book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1991.

Jun 30, 2010