- Max Boot
Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American author, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to "The Weekly Standard", … - Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American writer. He is the author of "The End of Faith" (2004), which was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and "Letter to a Christian Nation" (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism the first book attracted. His articles have appeared in "Newsweek", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Times" of London, and "The Boston Globe". - Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an left-wing American journalist, Editor-at-Large of "The American Prospect". Meyerson is also political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The New Republic", … - Neal Gabler
Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, and political commentator. He is the author of four books: "An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood" (1989), "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity" (1994), "Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality" (1998) and "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" (2006). - Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of "The New Republic". His articles have appeared in "Slate", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "Wired", and Beliefnet. In addition, he is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. think tank. - J. A. Adande
Joshua Ade "J.A." Adande (born October 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA) is a former sports columnist for the "Los Angeles Times" and a panelist for ESPN's "Around the Horn" and a guest host on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption". He is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. - Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile (born December 19, 1960), is a gay American writer and a national talk radio host whose program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada. He is a political liberal, unabashedly, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues. Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. - Robert J. Samuelson
Robert J. Samuelson is a contributing editor of Newsweek and "Washington Post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. His columns appear biweekly in both publications. His articles also appear in the "The Los Angeles Times", the "The Boston Globe", and other influential newspapers. He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the business desk of The Washington Post 1969. - Alissa J. Rubin
Alissa Johannesen-Rubin is an American journalist who began covering the Middle East for "The New York Times" in 2007. Previously, she had been a correspondent for "The Los Angeles Times". - J. R. Moehringer
J.R. Moehringer (born c. 1964) is an American journalist and author. He is a national correspondent for "The Los Angeles Times". A 1986 graduate of Yale University, Moehringer began his journalism career as a news assistant at "The New York Times". He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2000. The film "Resurrecting the Champ", based on Moehringer's article on former boxing great Bob Satterfield in the "Los Angeles Times Magazine", … - Carol Platt Liebau
Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and commentator based near Los Angeles, California. She has served as a guest host for the nationally-syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show," for KABC radio in Los Angeles, and for KFTK 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis. Carol has also provided analysis and commentary on television for PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and on "The Dennis Miller Show." - David Rieff
David Rieff (born September 28, 1952, in Boston) is a nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. He has published numerous articles in "The New York Times", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", "Le Monde", "El Pais", "The New Republic", "Harper's", "The Atlantic Monthly", … - Jack Miles
Jack Miles (b. 1942) is a literary intellectual whose work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in numerous national publications, including "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New York Times", "The Boston Globe", "The Washington Post", and "The Los Angeles Times". Miles treats his biblical subjects neither as transcendent deities or historical figures, but as literary protagonists. - Matthew Continetti
Matthew Continetti is an American journalist and associate editor at "The Weekly Standard" whose articles frequently appear in the magazine. His book, "The K-Street Gang," was published in April 2006. His articles and reviews have also appeared in "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", and "Doublethink". He lives in Washington, D.C. - Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles. - Charles Champlin
Charles Champlin (born 1926 in Hammondsport, New York) is an American film critic and writer. Champlin was the principal film critic for "The Los Angeles Times" from 1965 - 1980. He has written many cinema-related books, including "George Lucas: The Creative Impulse" (1997) and "Hollywood's Revolutionary Decade" (1998), a collection of some of his film reviews from the 1970s. He has been suffering from macular degeneration since the late-1990s, … - Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and children's book author. His weekly political comic strip ran in The Village Voice for forty years and was syndicated nationwide. A new children's novel, A Room with a Zoo , is forthcoming (September 2005). - Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center ; and "U.S. Middle East Policy and the Intifada", in Gad Gilbar and Asher Susser, "At the Core of the Conflict" (in Hebrew). He is the editor of two book series: "The Middle East in Focus" (Palgrave-Macmillan); and "Military and Strategic Issues in the Middle East" (Taylor & Francis). His recently-completed books are "The Truth About Syria" (Palgrave-MacMillan, … - Martin Baron
Martin Baron, known as Marty, is an American journalist who has been the editor of "The Boston Globe" since July 2, 2001, sparked by the retirement of the former editor, Matthew V. Storin. Born and raised in Tampa, Florida c. 1955, Baron graduated from Lehigh University. Baron began working for the "The Miami Herald" in 1976, then moved to "The Los Angeles Times" in 1979 and to "The New York Times" in 1996. - Lalo Alcaraz
Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip "La Cucaracha". Alcaraz was born in the San Diego, California area and grew up in the neighboring city of Lemon Grove. Alcaraz began drawing editorial cartoons for his college paper, San Diego State University's "Daily Aztec", in the late 1980s. - Michael Wines
Stephen Michael Wines (born June 3, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American journalist who is the South Africa bureau chief for "The New York Times", based in Johannesburg. Previously, he had been the "Times" 's Moscow bureau chief beginning in 2002. Wines is a 1973 graduate of the University of Kentucky. He received his M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1974, … - Dave Hickey
Dave Hickey is one of the best known American art and cultural critics practising today. He has written for many major American publications including "Rolling Stone", "Art News", "Art in America", "Artforum", "Harper's Magazine", and "Vanity Fair". He is currently Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. - Jonathan V. Last
Jonathan V. Last is the online editor of "The Weekly Standard". Last has written for "The Wall Street Journal", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Washington Post", "The New York Post", "Salon.com", "Slate", "The Washington Times", "The New York Press", and other publications. He has appeared on CNN, Sky News, and the Fox News Channel. He is one of three writers at the "Galley Slaves" blog, … - Dennis Overbye
Dennis Overbye (born June 2, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is a science writer specializing in physics and cosmology. Overbye received his B.S. in physics from M.I.T. - where he was a member of the Alpha Mu chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma - in 1966. He started work towards a master's degree in astronomy from U.C.L.A. in 1970 (though left to write a novel, which currently remains in a drawer). - Matthew Scully
Matthew Scully (born March 30, 1959, in Casper, Wyoming) is an American author, journalist, and speechwriter. He worked as a speechwriter in the 2000 presidential campaign, and served as a special assistant and senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush from January 2001 to August 2004. He has also written for vice-presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, and for the late Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania. Scully is the author of "Dominion: The Power of Man, … - Gigi Goyette
Gigi Goyette-Jeffers is a former child actress. She allegedly had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger starting when she was 16, causing Schwarzenegger to temporarily decide not to run for governor of California. Goyette claimed in interviews to have had a brief sexual encounter with Schwarzenegger in 1975. In the late 1980s, she said, they had a once a year affair at an Ohio annual fitness convention he hosted. - Wendy Orent
Wendy Orent is an American anthropologist and author with special interest in pandemics. Orent is a freelance science writer whose work has appeared in "The Washington Post" and who has published numerous articles in "The Sciences," "The Los Angeles Times," The New Republic, Discover, and "The American Prospect". - Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph is an American journalist and member of the editorial board of "The New York Times". A native of Florida, Randolph is a graduate of Emory University and veteran journalist who began working at a newspaper in Pensacola, Florida in 1968. She has covered national politics and the media for The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Esquire, The New Republic and other magazines. - Noel Alumit
Named one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine, novelist, actor, and activist, Noël Alumit was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in the Los Angeles area of the United States. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California and later studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players. Alumit's play "Mr. and Mrs. - Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder is an American writer best known for his profiles, film reviews, technology pieces and investigative stories in the "Chicago Tribune", most notably his debunking of the Del Close skull myth. A Montana native, Elder got his start in journalism by interviewing Ken Kesey for his high school newspaper. The author encouraged Elder to attend his alma mater, the University of Oregon, which Elder did two years later. - David Downie
David S. Downie is a multilingual Paris-based American author and journalist who writes most often about culture, food and travel. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Downie took a master’s degree in Italian from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was a University Fellow. After working in the early 1980s as a translator, interpreter and press officer in Milan, he moved to Paris. - John Schwada
John Schwada is a political and government reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. He has also won two LA Area Emmy awards for his investigative reports. Prior to joining KTTV in 1996, he worked as a political and City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He also worked for The Los Angeles Times, where he had his own weekly political column. Schwada was a reporter for the Riverside Press-Enterprise, … - Liane Bonin
Liane Bonin is an American journalist, author, radio producer, and produced screenwriter. She has written articles that appeared in "Entertainment Weekly", "The Los Angeles Times", "Mademoiselle", "Daily Variety", "People", "Teen People", "The Hollywood Reporter", "Maxim" and others. Bonin graduated with a degree in filmic writing. Her young adult novel series "Fame Unlimited" was bought by NAL/Jam, … - Lawrence Ross
Lawrence Ross was born on February 20, 1966 in Los Angeles, California. He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and then University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, where he earned a degree in History. Ross worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Independent Newspaper and was appointed managing editor of Rap Sheet magazine, hip hop's first West Coast magazine. - Miranda Seymour
Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist, and biographer. Miranda Seymour was two years old when her parents moved into Thrumpton Hall, the family's ancestral home in Nottinghamshire. This celebrated Jacobean mansion is on the south bank of the River Trent at the secluded village of Thrumpton. Miranda was raised by a father, George Fitzroy Seymour, who loved racing motorbikes and classic cars, … - Brian Payton
Brian Payton is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Los Angeles County in 1966, Payton lived in California, Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, and Alaska before settling in British Columbia at the age of 16. He was educated at the Seminary of Christ the King and the University of Victoria. Payton’s critically-praised first novel, "Hail Mary Corner" (Beach Holme), … - Eyvind Earle
Eyvind Earle (April 26 1916-- July 20 2000), was an American contemporary artist, author and illustrator. Earle was critically acclaimed by such publications as "Time", "The Los Angeles Times", "The New York Times", "The New York World-Telegram", "The Art News" and "The New York Sun". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rahr-West Art Museum, … - Gene Stone
Gene Stone is an American writer and editor. A graduate of Stanford and Harvard, he is a former Peace Corps volunteer, a screenwriter, and a journalist as well as a book, magazine, and newspaper editor including "The Los Angeles Times", "California" magazine (editor in chief), "Esquire", Harcourt Trade Publishers, Bantam Books, and Simon & Schuster. - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - Philip Terzian
A native of the Washington, DC, area, he has been a journalist since the early 1970s: Reporter and editor at the Anniston (Ala.) Star, Reuters, and US News & World Report; assistant editor of the New Republic; assistant editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times; associate editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; and editor of the editorial pages at The Providence Journal. During 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
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