Author Bios

Mike Lofgren is a former congressional staff member and the author of The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted …

Richard von Weizsäcker is former President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Abby Goodnough is the Boston bureau chief for The New York Times. 

Václav Havel was president of the Czech Republic. Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Richard von Weizsäcker is former president of …

Dani Zamora is a Chicanized Post-Mexican currently residing in Austin, TX. Zamora graduated from Grinnell College in May 2008 after thoroughly investigating the relationship between repetition, dance, and drawing.He was …

Marqueece Harris-Dawson is president and CEO of Community Coalition.

Jacob Simas is an associate editor at New America Media.

Jim Sabin is a clinical professor in the departments of Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has written two books about health system ethics: 'Setting Limits …