Author Bios

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), director of the university's Center for Social Studies and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or editor of 23 books. His …

Joe Guinan is executive director of the Next System Project and recently rejoined the British Labour Party after a 20-year hiatus.

Michael Wooldridge is the writer and producer for the upcoming documentary War for the Web, a film that explores the fight for online rights and the people who are …

Page Gardner is president of the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund. Information sources used in this article include the Democracy Corps’ report “The Urgent Policy Agenda” and the …

Russell Brown is a member of Veteran's for Peace and the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars and is based in Buffalo, NY.

Erika Eichelberger is a senior editorial fellow at Mother Jones where she writes regularly for the website. She is also director of social media for TomDispatch. She has written for the Nation, …

Nathan Fuller is a writer and activist, formerly with the Chelsea Manning Support Network, now writing at NathanLFuller.com.