Author Bios

Brian McAfee is a freelance writer who lives in West Michigan. He welcomes any comment or suggestions at [email protected].

Michael Hudson is a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He is the author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street …

Basel Saleh is an assistant professor of economics and a peace studies faculty member at Radford University in Virginia. His work on Palestinian suicide bombers is widely cited in …

Jeremy Adam Smith is web editor of the Greater Good Science Center where this article originally appeared and author or coeditor of four books, including The Daddy Shift, Rad …

Joanne Barkan is a writer based in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. Her other articles on the education reform movement and big philanthropy can be found here.