Author Bios

Barbara Andreassen is a freelance writer and artist. William Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and a regular contributor at TomDispatch.com. 

Peter G. Cohen, artist and activist, attended the University of Chicago when the first chain reaction was being developed in its stadium. He was on a troopship bound for …

Pam Bailey is co-founder of More Than Our Crimes and a freelance journalist.

Professor David Frakt is director of the Criminal Law Practice Center at Western State University College of Law, a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force Reserve JAG Corps …

Michael Gass is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist and veteran of the Gulf War during operations in Iraq in 1991. He returned to Iraq in 2006 as a …

Rose Aguilar is the host of ‘Your Call,’ a daily call-in radio show on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and on KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz. She …

Zaid Jilani is a journalist currently doing a fellowship studying political and social polarization at the University of California, Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.