Author Bios

Jesselyn Radack is a national security and human rights lawyer, and a former ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice who became a whistleblower after she disclosed that …

Manipadma Jena is an independent development journalist and communications consultant who works out of Bhubaneswar in eastern India. She specialises in environment, climate change, biodiversity, indigenous people and the …

Jing Fong is education outreach manager at YES! Magazine. 

Herbert Bix is emeritus professor of history and sociology at Binghamton University, and the author of Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1886 and Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. …

Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist (found on TheSleuthJournal.com, Worldnewstrust.com, Democratic Underground, The Intrepid Report, Nation of Change, …

Robert James Parsons, a freelance journalist based in Geneva, writes regularly on international affairs (among other things) for the Geneva newspaper Le Courrier. Now in its 150th year of publication …

Hannah K. Gold writes on social justice and literature for publication, and composes bad poetry and erotica for herself. She is based in Brooklyn. Follow her @togglecoat.

Chris Young is a reporter for the Center's Consider the Source project, where he focuses on the influence of money in state and federal courts. Before joining the Center …