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Terence Samuel covers Congress for U.S. News & World Report. Before joining the magazine, Samuel was, for three years, a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he wrote on a wide range of topics, including congressional politics, urban policy and development, welfare, race and affirmative action. Previously, Samuel spent a decade at the […]

Michael Tomasky writes a column on politics for New York magazine, where he has been a contributing editor since 1995. Before that, he was a columnist for The Village Voice, and, before that, The New York Observer. He is the author of two books: Left for Dead (Free Press, 1996), about the intellectual collapse of

Esteban López-Escobar was born and brought up in Asturias in northern Spain, where he took his first degree in the law school of Oviedo University. He did post-graduate work in law, journalism and mass communication at the University of Navarra (Pamplona). He then received his doctorate in law from the University of Seville where he

Al Franken, political satirist, is an Emmy Award–winning television writer and producer, a New York Times bestselling author, and a Grammy-winning comedian. In 1975, Franken was part of the original writing staff that created “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). He remained with SNL until 1980 and returned to the show in 1985. He remained for another

Ingrid Volkmer is associate professor at the University of Melbourne Australia and deputy director of the Media and Communications program. She has taught at universities in Germany (Bielefeld and Augsburg), Austria (University of Innsbruck) and was a faculty member at the New School University, New York, where she taught in the Media Management Program. Her

Paul Kelly is the editor-at-large of The Australian and was previously editor-in-chief of The Australian (1991–1996). He is a writer, historian and political analyst. After graduating from Sydney University, he worked in the Prime Minister’s Department in Canberra (1969–71) before transferring to journalism. He served as chief political correspondent and Canberra bureau chief for The

Eytan Gilboa is a professor of international communication and government at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has written extensively on international communication, American-Israeli relations, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His best-known book is American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. His most recent book, an edited volume on Mass Communication and Conflicts, will be

Hans Bergström was the chief editor of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden’s leading quality newspaper with around one million daily readers. Before his 14 years at Dagens Nyheter, he was editor-in-chief of the largest regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, Örebro. He left his operational position at Dagens Nyheter last autumn in order to do research and write

Trudy Lieberman, a journalist for more than 30 years, is director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She continues to write about health policy for Consumer Reports, is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and a contributor to The Nation. She has won numerous awards and honors including two

Jeff Madrick is the editor of Challenge magazine, an economics columnist at The New York Times and a regular economics contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of The End of Affluence (Random House, 1995) and Taking America (Bantam,1987), both New York Times notable books of the year. Business Week