Author Bios

Dr. Robert Mackey, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Retired), is a combat veteran of the invasion of Panama, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was Assistant Professor of Military …

Brendan Fischer is the director of Campaign Legal Center's Federal Reform Program. Follow him on Twitter: @brendan_fischer.

Joseph Dana, a writer and journalist based in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, is a contributing editor to the independent web magazine +972. His work has appeared in The Nation, …

Michael McAuliff is an independent congressional reporter for the New York Daily News and other outlets including Kaiser Health News, The Daily Beast, Tarbell and Now This. Follow him …

Glenn W. Smith has spent the past 30 years in journalism and politics, where he's made a name for himself as a writer, campaign manager, activist, think-tank analyst and, …

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.

David Siders covers California state politics for The Sacramento Bee.

Elena Shore is an editor and translator for New America Media.

David McNeill writes for The Independent, The Irish Times, The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the coauthor of the 2012 book Strong in the Rain: …