Author Bios

Costas Panayotakis teaches Sociology at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology and is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, which will be published …

Muhammad Sahimi, professor of chemical engineering & materials science and the National Iranian Oil Company chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California, has published extensively on …

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State (SelectBooks, 2013) is available …

Darrin Mortenson is a freelance writer and former Time correspondent.

Paul Buhle is the founder of the Oral History of the American Left at New York University and co-author of several studies of the Hollywood Blacklistees including Tender Comrades.

Michael Berkowitz is a veteran of the civil rights movement. He worked with unemployed/disabled coal miners for Eastern Kentucky Welfare rights. He was also a special assistant to Berkeley's …

J. Andrew Curliss has covered state and local politics for The Raleigh News & Observer for the past decade, and joined the investigative team in December 2008. Previously, Curliss' …