RSS Feeds
Maha Gaber Abouelenein is the principal of communications firm Organizational Consultants. She focuses on US politics and bridging understanding with Arab cultures, media, and government. She is an active member in the World Economic Forum and the co-Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Dan Abrams is CEO of Abrams Research, an attorney, and chief legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale, and the author of 15 books on political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His works include Social Justice in the Liberal State, the multivolume constitutional history, We the People, The Failure of the Founding Fathers and Before the Next Attack.
Edward Adams (1933-2004) was a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist best known for his war coverage. He mostly worked for The Associated Press, Time and Parade. His photographs of human rights defenders from 36 countries were published in a book with Kerry Kennedy, Speak Truth to Power.
Mark Adams is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many of America’s leading magazines, including GQ, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, Fortune and National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. Adams wrote New York magazine’s popular column “It Happened Last Week” and once ran 26 miles alone through the streets of Manhattan for an assignment. Originally from Oak Park, Illinois, he now lives near New York City with his wife and their three sons.
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Jerry Adler is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where he writes about medicine, science, and ideas. He is the author of High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper.
Prashant Agrawal is CEO of Indipepal.com, India's only social portal. He previously worked at Skadden Arps, McKinsey, and a hedge fund, and is a contributing editor to GQ India and the magazine’s business columnist.
Liaquat Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, a book about the causes of the Great Depression. After working as an economist at the World Bank, he spent 25 years as a professional investment manager in London and New York.
Lee Aitken is an editor and writer who has worked at Time Inc., the New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, and the International Tribune, among others. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her daughter.
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., ABPP, is an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
Linda Alcorace is a writer and Adjunct Professor of English at Santa Monica College. Her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Copley Press.
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly Paris editor of The Paris Review, a senior editor at Harper’s magazine, and a reporter for the Boston Globe, he is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, and Vogue, among other publications.
Matthew Alexander is a pseudonym for a 14 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. As the leader of an elite interrogations team in Iraq, he conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised more than 1,000. He served in three wars and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 2006. He is the author of How to Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.
Paul Alexander is the author of Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove and Man of the People: The Life of John McCain, among others. A member of The Authors Guild and PEN American Center, Paul has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992. She served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is currently a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her autobiography, Infidel, was a 2007 New York Times bestseller.
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes about everyday ethics, health, and the right to privacy for scholarly journals and the popular press.
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Ronnie Sue Ambrosino is a retired computer analyst originally from New York. She has traveled the country for the last 4 years in a motor home experiencing all the country has to offer. That ended abruptly on Dec. 11th when her only source of income, Bernard Madoff, confessed to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Ronnie Sue is proactively involved in joining together other Madoff victims in an effort to find restitution and recovery at bernardmadoffvictims.org.
Kurt Andersen's new book, RESET: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America will be published by Random House in July.
Nicole Ankowski writes about television, pop culture, and—on occasion—more frivolous matters. She lives in Brooklyn.
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel, The Headmaster Ritual.
Gustavo Arellano writes the syndicated “AskaA Mexican” column for OC Weekly and is the author of Orange County: A Personal History, recently published by Scribner.
Erin Arvedlund is a financial writer working on a book about the rise and fall of Bernard Madoff, "Too Good to Be True" (Penguin). She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's magazine and TheStreet.com. She worked abroad at The Moscow Times.
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
Shaun Assael is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He is the author of three books, including, most recently, Steroid Nation.
James Atlas is the president of Atlas & Co. and founder of the Penguin Lives series. His books include Bellow: A Biography and the memoir My Life in the Middle Ages, and his biography of Delmore Schwartz was nominated for the National Book Award.
Bernard Avishai splits his time between Jerusalem and New Hampshire. He is the author, most recently, of The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last (Harcourt). A former editor of the Harvard Business Review, he blogs at www.bernardavishai.com.
John P. Avlon is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. He writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he served as Chief Speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Lila Azam Zanganeh has taught literature and cinema at Harvard University. She is a literary contributor to Le Monde and a host of other European and American publications. In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book—Light of My Life, or How to Net the Incredible Happiness of an Extraordinary Writer—will be published in 2009.
Kevin Baker was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts. He graduated from Columbia University in 1980, and since then has earned his living as a writer and editor.
Ashleigh Banfield is co-anchor of Courtside on IN SESSION, and hosts Disorder in the Court with Ashleigh Banfield. She previously served as a correspondent and anchor for NBC News and MSNBC.
Ann Louise Bardach writes the Interrogations column for Slate and is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington, to be published in April, and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana.
Bob Barker is best known as the epitome of game show hosts, having recently retired after 50 years on television, and 35 years of hosting The Price Is Right—the longest running game show in TV history. His memoir, Priceless Memories was recently released by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Group.
Allen Barra writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice. He also writes about books for Salon.com, Bookforum, and the Washington Post. His latest book is Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee.
Bruce Bartlett was one of the original supply-siders, helping draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leading Republican economist, working for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, the Office of Policy Development in Ronald Reagan’s White House, and the Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush administration. In recent years, however, Bartlett became very disenchanted with the direction of GOP and voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
Jack Bass, co-author of Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, is currently writing Justice Abandoned (the story of the Supreme Court and the road to Jim Crow) for Pantheon Books. He is professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
General John Batiste was commander of the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army in Iraq in 2003, and retired as a major general in November 2005.
Marty Beckerman is the author of Generation S.L.U.T. (MTV Books) and Dumbocracy (Disinformation). He has written for Playboy, Discover, Radar and Huffington Post. His website is www.MartyBeckerman.com.
The writer is a college senior in Philadelphia majoring in journalism and economics, and is an intern at a public-relations firm. She hopes to work in broadcast journalism after completing a graduate degree. Melissa Beech is a pseudonym.
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Ralph Begleiter was CNN’s World Affairs Correspondent from 1981-1999. He teaches journalism and political science at the University of Delaware.
Jason Bellini is a freelance TV journalist who has worked for MTV, CBS, and CNN. In 2006, he received the Journalist of the Year award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
Rich Benjamin is senior fellow at Demos, a New York-based nonpartisan think tank. His book on the future of white America will be published by Hyperion in 2009.
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of Bravo's Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
Bradley Berman is the editor of HybridCars.com and writes about hybrids for BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and other publications.
Paul Berman is the author of a two-volume history of the generation of 1968, A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists.
Russell Berman served as Washington correspondent for the New York Sun, covering the presidential campaign and Congress. He has also written for Newsday and the Hartford Courant.
Louis de Bernières, author of the bestselling novel Corelli’s Mandolin, was selected by Granta as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists in 1993. He lives in Norfolk, England.
Carl Bernstein shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for his coverage of Watergate for The Washington Post. His most recent book is the acclaimed biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President’s Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. He is also the author of Loyalties, a memoir about his parents during McCarthy–era Washington.
Richard Bernstein is a writer based in New York. He is a former China correspondent for Time Magazine and bureau chief of the New York Times in Paris and Berlin. His new book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.
J. J. Berzelius (1779-1848) was one of the fathers of modern chemistry, having worked out the technique of chemical formula notation. He was also the person who first identified silicon, selenium, thorium, and serium.
Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning journalist and former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time magazine, who has been based out of the Middle East since 1996. He is the author of Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society. He is also the author of the Omar Yussef series of Palestinian crime novels, including The Collaborator of Bethlehem and The Samaritan’s Secret, which was published in February.
Paras D. Bhayani is a senior at Harvard and the managing editor of the Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper.
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
Stanley Bing is a longtime columnist for Fortune and the author of several books, including What Would Machiavelli Do, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, and Executricks.
Clara Bingham is the co-author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law and author of Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. A former Newsweek correspondent who covered the first Bush White House, Bingham has also written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Monthly, and Talk.
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.
Cherie Blair is a leading international barrister specializing in human-rights law. She is married to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, and lives with her family in London.
Tony Blair is founder of the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative to work for a new global deal for a low carbon future.
Jonathan Blitzer is a freelance writer and translator living in New York. He also works at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School.
David Blum, former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice and The New York Press, teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Flash in the Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant and Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes.
Lesley M. M. Blume is a writer and journalist based in New York City, where she was born. The author of three books for Knopf, Ms. Blume has worked for Cronkite Productions, The Jordan Times in Amman, and ABC News Nightline; her articles have appeared in many publications, from Slate to Vogue.
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and writing fellow at The Nation Institute, whose book, Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books), is forthcoming in Spring 2009. Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, is executive producer of the Oscar winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," and author most recently of "The Strange Death of Republican America."
Eric Boehlert is Senior Fellow for Media Matters for America and a former writer for Salon and Rolling Stone. He is author of Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press as well as Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.
Robert Bookman has been a senior motion picture literary and director’s agent at Creative Artists Agency since 1986 and is a partner. Prior to that, he was executive vice-president, production at Columbia Pictures, vice-president in charge of production at ABC Motion Pictures, and an agent at ICM. He is involved in various organizations as well, including Doctors Without Borders/USA, the Los Angeles Center for the Performing Arts, and the Yale Law School Campaign Committee.
Writer and comedian Andy Borowitz's work has appeared in Condé Nast Portfolio, the New Yorker and The New York Times. His Web site is BorowitzReport.com.
Laird Borrelli-Persson is the Senior Features Editor at Style.com, the on-line home of Vogue and W magazines. She co-authored Bags: A Lexicon of Style with Valerie Steele, and has published four other titles: Fashion Illustration Now, Fashion Illustration Next, Net Mode: Web Fashion Now, and, most recently, Fashion Drawings by Fashion Designers (2008). She also contributes to a international magazines and comments on contemporary fashion for various media outlets.
Jason Boyett is the author of the upcoming books Pocket Guide to the Afterlife, Pocket Guide to the Bible, and Pocket Guide to Sainthood, releasing in August from Jossey-Bass. His writing has appeared in Salon, Paste, Relevant, and other publications. He blogs about religion and culture at jasonboyett.com.
Quinn Bradlee was born with Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome (VCFS), the second-most-prevalent genetic syndrome in the world behind Down syndrome. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker and launched www.FriendsOfQuinn.com, to create an online community and resource for young adults with LD and their families. He is the son of Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, and Sally Quinn, journalist and best-selling author.
Howard Bragman is founder of FifteenMinutes.com, a public-relations agency, as well as a crisis counselor. He is also the author of the recently released, Where’s My Fifteen Minutes?
Piers Brendon is the author of The Dark Valley and other histories and biographies. A resident of Cambridge, England, he is a former keeper of the Churchill Archives Center and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Susannah Breslin is a freelance journalist and blogger. Currently, she is at work on a novel set in the adult movie industry.
Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Wall Street Journal. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March, and her novel Year of Wonders is an international bestseller. She is the author of Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
Stephen Rex Brown is an intern at The Daily Beast. He has written for The New York Post and The New York Times.
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Christopher Brownfield drove nuclear submarines before volunteering for duty in Iraq. In Baghdad, he worked as a liaison between the State Department, coalition militaries, and the Iraqi government. He is studying international energy policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written a book, My Nuclear Family: Growing up with Energy & Violence.
Robert Bryce has written for numerous publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to The Guardian and The Nation to The American Conservative. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly. His latest book, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence,” was published in 2008 by PublicAffairs.
Christopher Buckley’s books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. He is currently on holiday and will be back to his column in August.
Kevin Buckley was a reporter and Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek between 1968 and 1972. He is the author of Panama—The Whole Story (Simon & Schuster, 1991). He is a contributing editor of Playboy and an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Demian Bulwa is a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he has been covering the death of Sandra Cantu. Find his work at demianbulwa.blogspot.com
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of five books, including the bestseller Barbarians at the Gate (written with co-author John Helyar). A film based on his last book, Public Enemies, will be released this summer, starring Johnny Depp as the legendary bank robber John Dillinger.
Charles Burson was executive vice president and general counsel at Monsanto Co. from 2001-2006. He served as counsel to the vice president and assistant to the president and chief of staff at the White House from 1997-2001.
Wendy Button is a writer in Washington, DC. She has written for Senators John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Mayor Tom Menino of Boston as well as other national and international leaders.
Colby Buzzell is the author of My War: Killing Time In Iraq. In 2007, Buzzell received the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. He lives in San Francisco, California and is working on a second book.
Thomas Cahill is the author of the Hinges of History series and most recently of A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green.
Tucker Carlson is a contributor to the Fox News Channel. He previously hosted The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Tucker on MSNBC after working for CNN.
Megan Carpentier is a freelance writer and an editor at Jezebel.com whose work has also been seen on Foreign Policy magazine's Madame Secretary blog, Glamour's political blog, on Wonkette, in Radar, and at WashingtonPost.com. Before regaining some semblance of a soul, she was a Very Serious Washington lobbyist who kept her unpaid opinions to herself.
Kate Carraway contributes to LA Weekly, Eye Weekly, and Nerve.com. She usually lives in Toronto.
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. His seven non-fiction books include God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics and Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. His first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His fourth novel, Jericho’s Fall, will be published in July.
Lisa's last book was Drugs Are Nice. She's fighting to the bookish death at the Literary Death Match in NYC on 25 June.
Dara Chadwick is the author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies—Even When We Don’t Love Our Own, which grew out of her experience as Shape magazine’s 2007 Weight-Loss Diary columnist. A former magazine staff editor, she’s a New England-based freelance journalist specializing in health, wellness and lifestyle topics.
Screenwriter and journalist Sona Charaipotra has contributed to the New York Times, People, ABCNews.com, MSN.com, American Way and other publications. Formerly an editor at Teen People and a reporter for People magazine, she writes about travel, food and entertainment at www.IshqInABackpack.com.
Shoma Chaudhury is Executive Editor of Tehelka, a reputed public interest newsmagazine in India. she live in New Delhi.
Susan Cheever is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including American Bloomsbury, My Name is Bill, Note Found in a Bottle, As Good as I Could Be, Home Before Dark, and Treetops. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a director of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author’s Guild. Cheever teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and at the New School.
The Honorable Michael Chertoff is founding partner of The Chertoff Group and former Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Jane Ciabattari’s work has appeared in Bookforum,The Guardian online, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire. Recent short stories are online at KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama and Lost Magazine.
Justin Clark is a writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, his work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and LA Weekly.
Marcia Clark, the former L.A. district attorney who prosecuted the O.J. Simpson murder case, has since served a regular legal television commentator. She has written a bestselling book, Without a Doubt, served as a columnist for Justice Magazine and is finishing her debut crime novel.
Thurston Clarke has written ten books, including The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (a New York Times bestseller), California Fault (a New York Times Notable Book) and Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America. His articles have been published in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Diane Clehane is a contributing editor at mediabistro.com where she writes the 'Lunch' column. She is at work on a memoir and lives in Westchester County, New York.
Jonathan Clements is Director of Financial Guidance for myFi, a unit of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and author of The Little Book of Main Street Money, which will be available in May. The views expressed here aren’t necessarily those of Citi or its other employees.
Steve Clemons is Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and publisher of the popular political blog, The Washington Note.
