Author Bios

Kari Lydersen has worked since 1997 as a Chicago-based journalist, including in the Midwest bureau of The Washington Post and for the Chicago News Cooperative, specializing in environment, labor …

Alec MacGillis covers politics for ProPublica.

Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and a TomDispatch.com regular. His latest book is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). To listen to Timothy MacBain’s latest …

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He is the author of America's Stolen Narrative and the …

Esther Kaplan is editor of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, and author of With God on Their Side: George Bush and the Christian Right.