Author Bios

Michael Beckel is a politics reporter at The Center for Public Integrity.

Robert Pallitto is an associate professor of political science at Seton Hall University and a former trial attorney. He is the editor ofTorture and State Violence in the United States (2011). Laura …

Ariel Wittenberg has previously worked for the Center for Public Integrity, where she covered the nation's foreclosure crisis. A graduate of Brandeis University, she was editor-in-chief of the campus …

Stephenson and Safi are McClatchy special correspondents.  

Peter Montague is a historian and journalist whose work has appeared in Counterpunch, Huffington Post, The Nation and many other publications. He has co-authored two books on toxic heavy …