Authors

Peter Kwong Peter Kwong

Peter Kwong, a professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College, is co-author of Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community.

Apr 2, 2010

Jim Hightower Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower has been called America’s favorite populist. He’s been editor of The Texas Observer, president of the Texas Consumer Association, Texas Agriculture Commis…

Apr 2, 2010

Chris Lombardi Chris Lombardi

Chris Lombardi, a New York-based freelance writer, also writes for Women’s E-News (www.womensenews.org), as well as Ms., The Progressive and the Village Voice.

Apr 2, 2010

Nate Blakeslee Nate Blakeslee

Nate Blakeslee is an editor at the Texas Observer.

Apr 2, 2010

Karen Rosenberg Karen Rosenberg

Karen Rosenberg is active in Europe and North America as a writer of essays, fiction and plays, and as a curator of art and film. Her article on the anarchist cult of self-sacrific…

Apr 2, 2010

Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy…

Apr 2, 2010

Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Biotech Century (Tarcher Putnam), is president of The Foundation on Economic Trends, in Washington, DC. His latest book is The Hydrogen Economy: The Cr…

Apr 2, 2010

Chris Floyd Chris Floyd

Chris Floyd’s political column, “The Global Eye,” appears weekly in the Moscow Times and the St. Petersburg Times.

Apr 2, 2010

Charles Glass Charles Glass

Charles Glass (www.charlesglass.net) was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993 and covered the 1991 and 2003 American wars against Iraq for ABC. He is the author, most recently, of Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation (Penguin Press).

Apr 2, 2010

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is the author of many other works of nonfiction and fiction, including the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (which was shortlisted for the Man Boo…

Apr 2, 2010

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