Author Bios

Christopher Witko is the Associate Director and Professor of the School of Public Policy at Pennsylvania State University.

Keith A. Spencer is the cover editor for Salon, and manages Salon's science, tech and health coverage.

Jim Keen, DVM, is a veterinarian with 25 years of research and field experience in livestock health and production medicine, veterinary public health, zoonotic infections and biomedicine. He is …

Sara Amundson is the president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund.

Foreign Policy in Focus columnist Laura Carlsen is also director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy in Mexico City.

Salim Chisti Matt Sean Gras is an American Sufi whose faith infuses his work. A writer, musician and a leader of Dances of Universal Peace, Salim seeks to support …

E. Tammy Kim is a contributor to The Hechinger Report.

David A. Love is a Philadelphia-based freelance journalist and commentator who writes on politics, race, justice and human rights issues. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidALove.

Elizabeth Oglesby is an associate professor of Latin American studies and geography at the University of Arizona.

David Carroll Cochran is professor of politics at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and the author of “Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War” (Orbis Books).