- Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff is an investigative journalist for the United States-based magazine "Newsweek". Born in Syosset, New York. He joined the magazine as an investigative correspondent in June, 1994, and has written extensively on the US government’s War on Terrorism, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, campaign finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. Isikoff had been prepared to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal, … - Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter is a columnist and senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, where he has worked since 1983. A Chicago native and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. In addition, he can be heard frequently on cancelled "Imus in the Morning," and "The Al Franken Show" on Air America Radio. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Howard Fineman
Howard Fineman is Newsweek’s Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. An award-winning writer, Fineman also is an NBC News Analyst, contributing reports to the network and its cable affiliates. He was a regular guest on the “Imus in the Morning” radio show. The author of scores of Newsweek cover stories, Fineman’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic. - David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic. - Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969) is the editor of "Newsweek" magazine, a bestselling author, and a commentator on politics, history, and faith in America. - Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", … - Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah , a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly , writes Slate's "Chatterbox" column. Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at US News and World Report and a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal . Noah was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 1983-5. His most recent article for the Monthly was "Small things make a big difference" . - Larisa Alexandrovna
Larisa Alexandrovna (born December 7, 1971 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a journalist, essayist, poet. She has served as the Managing Editor of Investigative News of Raw Story for the last three years, and contributes opinion and columns to online publications such as Alternet. She is also an American blogger Huffington Post and for her own journalism blog, at-Largely. Alexandrovna has had her work references in "Rolling Stone", "Vanity Fair", … - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - 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. - Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist. Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967.... - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen hasn't been a New York Times columnist for more than a decade, but she'd still fit in quite well on her old paper's op-ed page. In her opinion piece for the October 31 Newsweek, Quindlen takes up the inclination to psychoanalyze President Bush from one current Times columnist, Maureen Dowd , and the Iraq-is-Vietnam argument from another, Frank Rich. - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com. - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - 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". - Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer, (born October 31, 1956 in New York City), is a gay American literary critic, writer, and poet. His works have appeared in "The New Republic", "The Nation", "Newsweek", "The Wall Street Journal", "The New Criterion", "The American Spectator" and "The Hudson Review", among other places. He is also the author of several books, including "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society", … - Walter E. Williams
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics. - Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' group. Honored by "Esquire" as one of "America’s Best and Brightest" in 2004, Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs. - Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. - Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby (1945-) is an American author. Her most recent book is "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism" (2004). "Freethinkers" was named a notable book of 2004 by "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times". It was also named an Outstanding International Book of the Year by the "Times Literary Supplement" (London) and "The Guardian". - Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mystic River; Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone; Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; and A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he lives in the Boston area. - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - 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. - Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes is a Chicago journalist and the founder and editor of The Beachwood Reporter, a Chicago-centric webzine that launched in February 2006. Before starting the "Reporter", Rhodes was a reporter for "Chicago" magazine and wrote "Press Box", a media column on the magazine's Web site. Before that, he worked for "Newsweek" and the "Chicago Tribune". Rhodes's duties include shaping and editing the site's content, … - Judith Warner
Judith Warner is the author of a range of nonfiction books, among them "You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America" (with Howard Dean) and the bestselling biography "Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story". A former special correspondent for "Newsweek" in Paris, … - Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (19 October 1918 - 29 April1994) was an American political theorist, historian, social critic, and man of letters, best known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, "The Conservative Mind", gave shape to the amorphous post-World War II conservative movement. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. - Chuck Klosterman
My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as well read someone who is smart and funny about them, and that person is Klosterman. Although not a metal fan, I loved Fargo Rock City , and found his essays in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs exceedingly funny. - Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American independent film writer and director. He attended Midwood High School (1987) and Vassar College. He is the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and "Village Voice" critic Georgia Brown. He made his writing and directing debut at the age of 24 with "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), a comedy about four young men who graduate from college and refuse to move on with their lives, … - Stewart Alsop
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 - May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst. Born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University. After graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran. After the United States entered World War II, Alsop joined the British Army, … - Steven Brill
Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950 in Queens, New York) is best known as the founder of Clear Registered Traveler, the New York-based startup airport security fast-pass company. He is the creator of a magazine with a critical eye to the media, "Brill's Content". He also launched the now-defunct Contentville.com, which was to be a clearinghouse for the buying and selling of web text, news, and info of all sorts. - Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken (b. 4 February 1946) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. At age 20, he dedicated his life to changing the relationship between business and the environment, and between human and living systems in order to create a more just and sustainable world. His work includes starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce upon the environment, … - Alex Beam
Alex Beam (born 1954) is an American writer and journalist, currently a columnist for "The Boston Globe". Beam grew up in Washington, D.C., as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam graduated from Yale University in 1975. Beam worked at "Newsweek" and "BusinessWeek", where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining the "Boston Globe". His twice-weekly column for the "Globe" has appeared since 1987. - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Katie Hafner
Katie Hafner is a journalist who writes books and articles about technology. She is a technology reporter at "The New York Times" and contributing editor for "Newsweek". She has worked at "Business Week", and has written for "Esquire", "Wired", "The New Republic" and "The New York Times Magazine". She lives with her family in Marin County, California. - 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. - 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." - Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek".
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