Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman

Joshua Kosman is the classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and blogs about music at pacificaisle.blogspot.com. He hails from the Bay Area and, with his Nation partner in puzzling, Henri Picciotto, has served as cryptic crossword editor for The Enigma, the publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, and edited The National Puzzlers’ League Cryptic Crosswords (free download at puzzlers.org).

May 25, 2011

ESPN ESPN

May 24, 2011

Rosalie Maggio Rosalie Maggio

Rosalie Maggio is an award winning author and creator of WMC’s “Hot Button Words” series.

May 20, 2011

Kathleen Peratis Kathleen Peratis

Kathleen Peratis, longtime peace activist and co-chair of the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, has traveled to Israel at least twice a year for the past twenty years.

May 19, 2011

Erica Funkhouser Erica Funkhouser

Erica Funkhouser's most recent book of poems is Earthly (Houghton Mifflin).  

May 18, 2011

Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist. Her most recent book of poems in an English translation is Alphabets of Sands (Carcanet)

May 18, 2011

Julie Margetta Morgan Julie Margetta Morgan

May 17, 2011

People For the American Way People For the American Way

May 16, 2011

Peter Van Buren Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, was published in 2011, and his latest book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent, has just been published.

May 16, 2011

Amy Hanauer Amy Hanauer

Amy Hanauer, executive director of Policy Matters Ohio (policymattersohio.org), works in Cleveland.

May 11, 2011