Author Bios

Heather Hewett writes about women, feminism, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Her essays have appeared in several books, including Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Mothering …

Kostis Karpozilos is a historian of Greek-American labor radicalism.

Megha Rajagopalan reports on digital privacy, security and freedom. She was a 2011 Fulbright fellow in Beijing where she conducted research on the Chinese news media, and was previously …

Bertil Lintner was a senior writer for the Far Eastern Economic Review for more than twenty years, covering Burma and related issues. He now writes for Asia Times Online, …

Suevon Lee is a contributor to ProPublica.

Ellen Leopold has been writing about the politics of cancer for 20 years. She is a member of Breast Cancer Action and has published two books on the subject: …

Jack A. Smith was editor of the Guardian -- for decades the nation's preeminent leftist newsweekly -- that closed shop in 1992. Smith now edits the Hudson Valley Activist …

Lyra Hill is a comics artist, filmmaker and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She organizes Brain Frame, a series of performative comics readings, and …