Author Bios

Noam Cohen is the author of The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball. Cohen covered the influence of the internet on …

Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States and genocide in world history. He …

Kathy Wilkes is an award-winning labor writer and editor, and a former union organizer, cofounder, officer, negotiator and communications director.

Michael Palmieri is the co-host of Left Out -- a monthly podcast that creates in-depth conversations with the most interesting political thinkers, heterodox economists and organizers on the Left.

Laurel Wales is deputy director of movement politics for People's Action.

Stephanie Basile is an organizer at The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America.

The author works as a server in a restaurant. Ursula Buffay is a pseudonym. 

Maria Silvestri is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Fred Redmond is executive vice president of the United Steelworkers and chairman of the board of the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College and author, most recently, of Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times.