Author Bios

Anna Christofidi is a political scientist. She lives in Athens and is studying the rise of the extreme right.

Michael Lux is CEO of Progressive Strategies, a partner at Democracy Partners, and author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be.

Polly Cleveland is executive director of the Association for Georgist Studies and adjunct professor of economics Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 

Sarah Betancourt is a Boston-based journalist who has written for In These Times, Open Media Boston, Spare Change News, Boston.com, the Boston Globe Environment Blog, and has had work …

Sherif Samir is an Egyptian writer and an Arabic teacher. He was the 2012 winner of the International Contest of Microfiction, awarded by Museo de la Palabra in Spain.

Ruby Russell is a British print journalist based in Berlin. She has written for US and UK publications including The Washington Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times of London …

Nathalie Baptiste is a Haitian-American contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus who lives in the Washington, DC area. She holds a BA and MA in international studies and writes …

Justin Podur is an associate professor of environmental studies at York University where he teaches landscape ecology and geographic information systems. He blogs on international politics at podur.org

Toni Gilpin is the author of the new book The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland.