Authors

Robin Blackburn Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn, distinguished visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and former editor of New Left Review, is the author of The Making of New World Slavery, The…

Apr 2, 2010

Timothy Waligore Timothy Waligore

Timothy Waligore, the founding editor of the Dartmouth Free Press, was a Nation intern in the summer of 2002 and is now in the PhD program in political science at Columbia Universi…

Apr 2, 2010

Kristal Brent Zook Kristal Brent Zook

Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist, author of three books including Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Power and Pain, and a professor of journalism at Hofstra Universi…

Apr 2, 2010

Michael E. Staub Michael E. Staub

Michael E. Staub is the author, most recently, of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (Columbia).

Apr 2, 2010

Palma J. Strand Palma J. Strand

Palma J. Strand is a fellow and teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is co-founder of the Arlington Forum, a local civic-organizing initiative.

Apr 2, 2010

M.V. Lee Badgett M.V. Lee Badgett

M.V. Lee Badgett is an economist at the University of Massachusetts and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies. This essay draws on her book, Money, Myths, and Change:…

Apr 2, 2010

Noy Thrupkaew Noy Thrupkaew

Noy Thrupkaew is a freelance writer based in New York City.

Apr 2, 2010

Michael J. Copps Michael J. Copps

Michael J. Copps was an FCC commissioner from 2001 to 2011 and currently heads the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause. 

Apr 2, 2010

Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is the author of a collection of poems, The Baghdad Blues, and a novel, I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody. His co-translation of Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, a selection of…

Apr 2, 2010

Saskia Sassen Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/) blogs on finance for the Huffington Post, and regularly contributes to OpenDemocracy.net. Her latest book is Territory,…

Apr 2, 2010

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