Author Bios

Shay Totten is a Vermont-based writer and longtime journalist who has written for the alt-weekly Seven Days, The Vermont Guardian, and Truthout, among other news organizations, and is a …

Danny Postel is associate director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran and coeditor …

Stephanie Van Hook is co-Director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California. You can contact her at [email protected].

James Lewis is a senior policy analyst at Washington think tank Robert Weiner Associates

Tony Newman is communications director for the Drug Policy Alliance.