Authors

D.T. Max D.T. Max

D.T. Max is the author of The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, a cultural and scientific history of prion diseases, including fatal familial insomnia and mad cow disease.

Apr 2, 2010

Erik Leaver Erik Leaver

Erik Leaver is the policy director for the Institute for Policy Studies’ Foreign Policy In Focus project (www.fpif.org).

Apr 2, 2010

Habiba Alcindor Habiba Alcindor

Habiba Alcindor is the communications coordinator for The Nation. She is an aspiring screenwriter who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is currently writing a soap opera.

Apr 2, 2010

Adonis Adonis

Apr 2, 2010

Robert Bryce Robert Bryce

Robert Bryce, a contributing writer for the Texas Observer, is the author of Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate.

Apr 2, 2010

Nancy Watzman Nancy Watzman

Nancy Watzman is the research and investigative projects director at Public Campaign and the author, with Micah L. Sifry, of the just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?…

Apr 2, 2010

Ann Jones Ann Jones

Ann Jones is a journalist and author whose works include Kabul in Winter (2006) and War Is Not Over When It’s Over (2010), both from Metropolitan Books. Her latest book is called They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America's Wars—The Untold Story. She lives in Norway.

Apr 2, 2010

Noel E. Parmentel Jr. Noel E. Parmentel Jr.

Noel E. Parmentel Jr. remains a Barry Goldwater/John McCain Republican.

Apr 2, 2010

John Sayles John Sayles

John Sayles is a filmmaker and the author, most recently, of A Moment in the Sun (McSweeney’s).

Apr 2, 2010

David Sirota David Sirota

David Sirota is a journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist, and radio host. His weekly column is based at The Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Portland Oregonian, and The Seattle Times and now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine and The Nation and hosts an award-winning daily talk show on Denver's Clear Channel affiliate, KKZN-AM760. He is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and a Huffington Post contributor and appears periodically on CNN, The Colbert Report, PBS, and NPR. He received a degree in journalism and political science from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Denver with his wife, Emily, son Isaac, and his dog, Monty.

Apr 2, 2010

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