John Leonard John Leonard
John Leonard, the TV critic for New York magazine, a commentator on CBS Sunday Morning and book critic for The Nation, is the author, most recently, of When the Kissing Had to Stop…
Apr 2, 2010
Greg Grandin Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is the author of Empire's Workshop, Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award, and, most recently, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World. He teaches at New York University.
Apr 2, 2010
H. Bruce Franklin H. Bruce Franklin
H. Bruce Franklin, the author or editor of eighteen books, including the just-published Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Massachusetts), is the John Cotton Dana Professor of E…
Apr 2, 2010
Tom Hayden Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden, the former California state assemblyman and senator, author, lifelong activist, and Nation editorial board member, died in Santa Monica on October 23, 2016. He was the…
Apr 2, 2010
Brendan Smith Brendan Smith
Brendan Smith is an journalist, oysterman and labor activist. He is co-founder of Global Labor Strategies, a consulting partner with the Progressive Technology Project, and has recently joined the staff of the Labor Network for Sustainability. As a proud member of the emerging "green jobs" movement, he also runs an 50 acre organic oyster farm off the Thimble Islands of Long Island Sound. Brendan has published two books, In the Name of Democracy (Holt/Metropolitan) and Globalization From Below (South End), and co-produced the PBS documentary Global Village or Global Pillage?, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000. He also served as a consultant on the documentary about Lt. Ehren Watada titled In the Name of Democracy: America's Conscience, A Soldier's Sacrifice. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Guardian, CBS News.com, YahooNews and the Baltimore Sun Times. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School. To contact or read more about Brendan's work, go to: www.bsmith.org.
Apr 2, 2010
Tim Costello Tim Costello
Tim Costello is, with Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, co-author of the new book Globalization From Below: The Power of Solidarity (South End) and co-producer of the documentary v…
Apr 2, 2010
Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher’s new book Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action, just published by Paradigm Publishers, addresses how social movements make social change. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work. He currently works with the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Apr 2, 2010
Lani Guinier Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier, the Bennet Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is the co-author of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harva…
Apr 2, 2010
Matthew Hoffman Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is an attorney in New York City whose writing on voting rights has also appeared in the Yale Law Journal.
Apr 2, 2010