Author Bios

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.

Dimitri Papadimitriou is President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and Executive Vice President and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College.

Miriam Gathigah is a contributor to Inter Press Service.