Author Bios

Rodolfo Acuña, a professor emeritus at California State University Northridge, has published 20 books and over 200 public and scholarly articles. He is the founding chair of the first …

John Sweeney is the AFL-CIO President.

Ellen Frank teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is a Dollars & Sense Associate.

Tom Diaz was formerly Democratic Counsel to the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He worked for then-Rep. Charles …

Caleb Stewart Rossiter is the director of the American Exceptionalism Media Project and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. A former congressional staffer and director of …

Rebecca Burns, an assistant editor at In These Times, holds an masters from the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where her research focused on …

Zia Swim is an environmentalist, activist and engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a fellow at Truthout doing development work and environmental journalism research.