Jake Johnston Jake Johnston

Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington D.C. He is the lead author for CEPR’s Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog and has authored papers on Haiti concerning the ongoing cholera epidemic, aid accountability and transparency and the U.S. foreign aid system. His articles have been published in outlets such as Boston Review, The Hill, AlterNet and Truthout.

Jan 21, 2015

David Hajdu David Hajdu

David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hadju is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. As an editor and magazine writer, Hajdu has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award several times, and his articles and essays have been selected for a number of anthologies, including Best Music Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times Arts & Culture Reader, and Best American Comics Writing. Hadju is the award-winning author of four books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America; and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. He is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award. Hadju is presently at work on a history of popular music, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Jan 20, 2015

Dimitris Bounias Dimitris Bounias

Dimitris Bounias (@dimitrisbounias), an Athens-based freelance journalist, is a New York Times contributing reporter and editor in chief of ThePressProject International.

Jan 20, 2015

Suki Kim Suki Kim

Suki Kim is the author of Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite (Crown, 2014).

Jan 16, 2015

Shireen Ahmed Shireen Ahmed

Jan 15, 2015

Bécquer Seguín Bécquer Seguín

Bécquer Seguín, a doctoral candidate in romance studies at Cornell University, has written about Spanish politics for Dissent and Jacobin.

Jan 14, 2015

Katherine Stewart Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart has written for The New York Times, The Guardian and Religion Dispatches. She is the author of The Good News Club.

Jan 14, 2015

Remy de la Mauviniere Remy de la Mauviniere

Jan 14, 2015

‘Umi Perkins ‘Umi Perkins

ʻUmi Perkins teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and political science in the University of Hawaiʻi system.

Jan 12, 2015

Jonathan Rapping Jonathan Rapping

Jonathan Rapping is president and founder of Gideon’s Promise, an organization dedicated to building a movement of public defenders to transform criminal justice in our nation’s most broken systems. He is also an associate professor and the director of the Honors Program in Criminal Justice at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. He was named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow for his transformative work on criminal-justice reform. 

Jan 12, 2015