Author Bios

Christine Hines is Consumer and Civil Justice Counsel at Public Citizen's Congress Watch. She advocates to improve consumer product safety and individuals' access to court. Before joining Public Citizen, …

Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

GottaLaff lives in California. She’s a UCLA grad and takes pride in her vast experience bellowing catcalls at what passes for TV news. Her career includes teaching theatre at …

Charlotte Silver is a journalist in San Francisco, formerly based in the West Bank, Palestine. Follow her on Twitter: @CharESilver.

Mostafa Henaway is a Canadian-born Egyptian based in Montreal where he is a community organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre. He is active with Tadamon! Montreal which works in …

Ali Fatemi and Karim Pakravan are members of the board of  the National Iranian American Council. Check out NIAC's blog at www.niacINsight.com.

Malcolm Fraser is a former prime minister of Australia. More of Mr. Fraser's contribution to Project Syndicate can be found here.

Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell is a North Carolina-based freelance journalist and graduate student studying legal and reproductive history.

Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.