Author Bios

Barnabe F. Geisweiller, a Canadian, is a graduate student at Columbia University's School of Journalism. More of his work can be found at www.barnabeg.com.  

Jim Cohen, a US native who has lived in France since 1977, teaches political science at the University of Paris VIII. He is a member of the editorial board …

Ezra Klein is a blogger and columnist for The Washington Post, a columnist for Bloomberg, and a contributor to MSNBC. He was formerly an associate editor of The American …

William R. Stimson is an American writer who lives in Taiwan.

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.