Authors

Neal Pollack Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Never Mind the Pollacks and Alternadad, which will be published by Pantheon in January.

Apr 2, 2010

Elsie Fox Elsie Fox

Elsie Fox is a 98-year old activist.

Apr 2, 2010

Anna G. Arutunyan Anna G. Arutunyan

Anna G. Arutunyan is an editor at the Moscow News.

Apr 2, 2010

Emily Amick Emily Amick

Emily Amick is an intern at The Nation.

Apr 2, 2010

Derek Tyner Derek Tyner

Derek Tyner is a freelance journalist living in Washington, DC.

Apr 2, 2010

Aziz Huq Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and previously litigated national security cases at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (New Press, 2007). He is a 2006 recipient of the Carnegie Scholars Fellowship and has published scholarship in the Columbia Law Review, the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, and the New School's Constellations Journal. He has also written for Himal Southasian, Legal Times and the American Prospect, and appeared as a commentator on Democracy Now! and NPR's Talk of the Nation. Before joining the Brennan Center, Aziz Huq clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge Robert D. Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. In 2001, he graduated summa cum laude from Columbia Law School, where he was awarded the John Ordonneux Prize. While at the Law School, he was Essay and Review Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Since 1998, Mr. Huq was worked on human rights issues overseas, including in Guatemala and Cambodia. In 2002, he joined International Crisis Group on a Post-Graduate Human Rights Fellowship from Columbia Law School, and has since worked as an analyst in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal studying the development of legal institutions and new constitutions.

Apr 2, 2010

Katherine Ryder Katherine Ryder

Katherine Ryder is pursuing a master’s degree in Anthropology and Law from London School of Economics.

Apr 2, 2010

Mickey Edwards Mickey Edwards

Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman, was a member of the House Republican leadership, national chair of the American Conservative Union and a founding trustee of the Heritage Foun…

Apr 2, 2010

Michael Hardt Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author, with Antonio Negri, of Empire and Multitude.

Apr 2, 2010

Benjamin Dangl Benjamin Dangl

Ben Dangl is the editor of Toward Freedom, the founder and editor of upsidedownworld.org and the author of Dancing With Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America.

Apr 2, 2010

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