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Maya Bhardwaj

Maya Bhardwaj (she/they) is a queer South Asian American scholar, organizer, activist, writer and artist/musician, currently based between London and South Africa. They hold over a decade of experience working …
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Kelly Denton-Borhaug

Kelly Denton-Borhaug, a TomDispatch regular, has long been investigating how religion and violence collide in American war culture. She teaches in the global religions department at Moravian University. She is the …
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Dean Preston

Dean Preston is an elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5.
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Cecilia Nowell

Cecilia Nowell is a freelance reporter focused on gender, health, and environmental stories in the Americas. Her writing has been published by The Guardian, KFF Health News, The Nation, …
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Brian Karem

Brian Karem is the former senior White House correspondent for Playboy. He has covered every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan, sued Donald Trump three times successfully to keep his …
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Sarmad Ishfaq

Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard, OpenDemocracy, Paradigm Shift and Eurasia Review, to name a few. He has …
Shirley Lung

Shirley Lung

Shirley Lung is a professor at City University of New York School of Law, where she teaches and writes about the conditions faced by low-wage workers, the intersection between …