Authors

Annabelle Gurwitch Annabelle Gurwitch

Writer and actress Annabelle Gurwitch currently prognosticates on both politics and pop culture on National Public Radio’s Day to Day. Her column Fired Up appears regularly i…

Apr 2, 2010

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was one of the very few grandmasters of American literature, without whom the very idea of American literature would mean much less than it does.

Apr 2, 2010

Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil

Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa.

Apr 2, 2010

Carol Jenkins Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins, a writer and producer, is an Emmy award winning former television anchor and correspondent, and Founding Chair of the Board of Greenstone Media, the talk radio netwo…

Apr 2, 2010

Emily Douglas Emily Douglas

Emily Douglas is the senior editor at TheNation.com, where she also blogs. A frequent contributor to the Women’s Review of Books, she has written about politics, culture and the law for The Nation, The American Prospect, The LA Review of Books, and RH Reality Check, and has appeared on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story and the Melissa Harris-Perry Show. She is a former associate editor at RH Reality Check. Before beginning her work in media, Emily worked in legal advocacy and education at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. Emily is a co-founder and board member of WAM!NYC, the New York City chapter of the national media justice group Women, Action and the Media. She tweets at @EmilySDouglas.

Apr 2, 2010

Michael Evans Michael Evans

Michael Evans is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive. Follow @migrationdocs !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Apr 2, 2010

Samuel Moyn Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. His most recent book is Human Rights and the Uses of History, which collects some of his pieces for this magazine.

Apr 2, 2010

Christopher Phelps Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American studies at the University of Nottingham in England. He is the co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second…

Apr 2, 2010

Ricardo Alarcón Ricardo Alarcón

Ricardo Alarcón has been the President of the National Assembly of Cuba since 1993. He has also served as Foreign Minister and as Permanent Representative of Cuba to the Uni…

Apr 2, 2010

April Howard April Howard

April Howard is a teacher, journalist and editor at Upside Down World.

Apr 2, 2010

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