Authors

Pete Stark Pete Stark

Pete Stark, ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, has represented California’s 13th District since 1973.

Apr 2, 2010

Jim McDermott Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott, chair of the Congressional Task Force on International HIV/AIDS, has represented Washington’s 7th District since 1989.

Apr 2, 2010

David Oshinsky David Oshinsky

David Oshinsky, George Littlefield Professor of American History at UT-Austin, is the author of many books, including Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow J…

Apr 2, 2010

Augustus Richard Norton Augustus Richard Norton

Augustus Richard Norton, professor of anthropology and international relations at Boston University, is the author of Amal and the Shi’a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon (Te…

Apr 2, 2010

Laila Weir Laila Weir

Laila Weir is a freelance journalist currently based in Chile.

Apr 2, 2010

Richard Kluger Richard Kluger

Apr 2, 2010

William P. Jones William P. Jones

William P. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.

Apr 2, 2010

John Gray John Gray

John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His most recent book is Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions (Granta).

Apr 2, 2010

Kai Wright Kai Wright

Kai Wright (kaiwright.com), the editorial director of Colorlines.com, is a Nation contributor and an Investigative Fund Fellow at The Nation Institute.

Apr 2, 2010

Frances Moore Lappé Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is the the author of 19 books on world hunger, living democracy, and the environment. Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold over 3 million copies. T…

Apr 2, 2010

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