Authors

Ben Adler Ben Adler

Ben Adler reports on Republican and conservative politics and media for The Nation as a Contributing Writer. He previously covered national politics and policy as national editor of Newsweek.com at Newsweek, a staff writer at Politico, a reporter-researcher at The New Republic,and editor of CampusProgress.org at the Center for American Progress. Ben also writes regularly about architecture, urban issues and domestic social policy.  Ben was the first urban leaders fellow, and later the first federal policy correspondent, at Next American City. He has been an online columnist, blogger and regular contributor for The American Prospect. He currently writes regularly for The Economist's Democracy in America blog, and MSNBC.com's Lean Forward.  His writing has also appeared in Architect, Architectural Record,The Atlantic,Columbia Journalism Review, The Daily Beast, Democracy, Good, Grist, The Guardian, In These Times, New York, The Progressive, Reuters, Salon, The Washington Examiner and The Washington Monthly and has been reprinted in several books. Ben grew up in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Wesleyan University. You can follow him on Twitter.

Apr 2, 2010

Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism for his work in Iraq and the Izzy Award for Outstanding Ac…

Apr 2, 2010

Jeff Blum Jeff Blum

Jeff Blum was founding executive director of USAction and leader of multiple state and national pro-transit campaigns.

Apr 2, 2010

Daniel Wolfe Daniel Wolfe

Daniel Wolfe is a community scholar at Columbia University’s Center for History & Ethics of Public Health and a consultant for the Open Society Institute.

Apr 2, 2010

David Graeber David Graeber

David Graeber, a reader in social anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, is the author of Debt: The First Five Thousand Years.

Apr 2, 2010

Susan Jacoby Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby is director of the Center for Inquiry-Metro New York, a secularist think tank and author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Metropolitan).

Apr 2, 2010

Daniel Wilkinson Daniel Wilkinson

Daniel Wilkinson covers Latin America for Human Rights Watch. His book Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala (Houghton Mifflin) received…

Apr 2, 2010

Mark Sorkin Mark Sorkin

Mark Sorkin is a writer living in Chicago.

Apr 2, 2010

Jeremy Varon Jeremy Varon

Jeremy Varon is the author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and the Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (University of Calif…

Apr 2, 2010

Jack Brown Jack Brown

Jack Brown ([email protected]) is a writer living in Mexico.

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