Matt Bors Matt Bors
Matt Bors is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist and editor based in Portland, OR. He was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his political cartoons, which appear regularly in The Sacramento Bee, Portland Mercury, Pittsburgh City Paper, and on Daily Kos. In the summer of 2010, Bors traveled to Afghanistan to draw comics and serves as the comics journalism editor for Cartoon Movement where he is currently editing a project on reconstruction efforts in Haiti. His work has been published by The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and dozens of other print and web publications. In 2012, Bors was the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for his editorial cartooning. His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.
Apr 2, 2010
Stephen Schlesinger Stephen Schlesinger
Stephen Schlesinger, author of Act of Creation (Westview), on the founding of the United Nations, is the director of the World Policy Institute at the New School.
Apr 2, 2010
Linda Heller Linda Heller
Linda Heller’s writing on medicine and health has appeared in many national magazines.
Apr 2, 2010
Chip Ward Chip Ward
Chip Ward is a former grassroots organizer/activist who has led several successful campaigns to hold polluters accountable. He described his political adventures in Canaries on the…
Apr 2, 2010
Andrew Ross Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, and author of many books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times.
Apr 2, 2010
Curtis Wilkie Curtis Wilkie
Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South, lives in New Orleans and Oxford, Mississippi, where he holds the Cook Chair in Journ…
Apr 2, 2010
Christine Smallwood Christine Smallwood
Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.
Apr 2, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage).
Apr 2, 2010
Corey Robin Corey Robin
Corey Robin, who teaches at Brooklyn College, is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea, and The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, which has just come out in paperback.
Apr 2, 2010
Laila Lalami Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami, the author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an associate professor of creative writing at the university of California, Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor’s Account, will be published next year.
Apr 2, 2010