Authors

Sophie Ragsdale Sophie Ragsdale

Sophie Ragsdale is a freelance writer. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Apr 2, 2010

John Ashbery John Ashbery

John Ashbery has published more than twenty volumes of poetry, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. A new collection of poems, Commotio…

Apr 2, 2010

McAlister Coleman McAlister Coleman

Apr 2, 2010

Greg Kaufmann Greg Kaufmann

Greg Kaufmann is the former poverty correspondent to The Nation and a current contributor. He serves as an advisor to the Ehrenreich Hardship Reporting Project and the Half in Ten Campaign. Through his writing he seeks to increase media coverage of poverty, share new research, elevate the voices of people living in poverty and offer readers opportunities to get involved with organizations working to eradicate poverty. Melissa Harris-Perry calls Greg “one of the most consistent voices on poverty in America.” Greg has spoken at numerous conferences and been a guest on Moyers & Company, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Tavis Smiley on PBS, NPR’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, Here & Now, Your Call, The Thom Hartmann Program, Stand Up! with Pete Dominick and The Matthew Filipowicz Show, as well as various local radio programs. His work has also been featured on CBSNews.com, NPR.org, WashingtonPost.com, and BusinessInsider.com. He serves as an advisor for Barbara Ehrenreich’s Economic Hardship Reporting Project. He graduated from Dickinson College and studied creative writing at Miami University (Ohio). He lives in his hometown of Washington, DC, with his wife, son and two daughters.

Apr 2, 2010

John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His most recent book (with Fred Magdoff) is The Great Financial Crisis: Caus…

Apr 2, 2010

Chris Mooney Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney, host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, is the author of The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality.

Apr 2, 2010

Clayton Swisher Clayton Swisher

Clayton Swisher, a Doha-based reporter with Al Jazeera English and term member with the Council on Foreign Relations, is author of The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story Abou…

Apr 2, 2010

V.G. Kiernan V.G. Kiernan

V.G. Kiernan (1913-2009) was a professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh. His books include The Lords of Human Kind: Black Man, Yellow Man, and White Man in an Age…

Apr 2, 2010

John Trumpbour John Trumpbour

John Trumpbour is research director of the Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. He can be reached at john_trumpbour at harvard dot edu.

Apr 2, 2010

Les Payne Les Payne

Les Payne was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor and a former columnist for Newsday.

Apr 2, 2010

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