Samantha Retrosi Samantha Retrosi

Samantha Retrosi competed in women’s singles luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Since her retirement in 2007, she has been active in the struggle for social justice and human rights, including the Occupy movement. She is currently a graduate student in George Mason University’s Department of Sociology.

Jan 22, 2014

Cyd Zeigler Cyd Zeigler

Cyd Zeigler is co-founder of Outsports.com, the worldwide leader in LGBTI sports. He has written the coming-out stories of countless athletes and is one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT athletes.

Jan 22, 2014

Kye Allums Kye Allums

Kye Allums is a trans* advocate & founder of Project I Am Enough.

Jan 22, 2014

NARAL Pro-Choice America NARAL Pro-Choice America

Jan 22, 2014

Betty Medsger Betty Medsger

As a Washington Post reporter in 1971, Betty Medsger wrote the first stories about the revelations in the stolen Media, Pennsylvania FBI files. In January 2014, Alfred A. Knopf published her book The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, in which the burglars are revealed and the impact of their actions is told. 

Jan 22, 2014

Alfred McCoy Alfred McCoy

Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, which is the source for much of the material in this essay.

Jan 21, 2014

Nir Elias Nir Elias

Jan 15, 2014

Adam Plunkett Adam Plunkett

Adam Plunkett is assistant literary editor of The New Republic.

Jan 15, 2014

Jerzy Ficowski Jerzy Ficowski

Jan 14, 2014

Anna-Lisa Castle Anna-Lisa Castle

Anna-Lisa Castle writes regularly for the [young}ist.

Jan 14, 2014