Author Bios

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.

Megan Cowell is a Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.