Board of Directors:

Beth Schulman, President, is the Senior Strategist for Institutional Advancement at Public Campaign’s Every Voice Center. For over three decades, she has helped develop and nurture progressive policy and media organizations.

Pia Gallegos is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, whistleblower and overtime class action cases. She also represents activist organizations in not-for-profit and issue advocacy law.

Robert McChesney, Presente! is the author of six books on media and politics, Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press.

Deborah Toler, a former Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), has worked in Africa and has written extensively about international trade and development issues.

Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network.

  • Does the Supreme Court Administer Justice?

  • Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists

    Joseph Bullington, editor for In These Times, writes about a recent case of trailer park homeowners taking on the VCs who own the land they live on: “On Jan. 14, residents formed a cooperative, elected representatives, and voted to try to buy the park themselves.”

  • New Database Aggregates Pandemic Policies

    A database introduced this month aggregates state policies that had the goal of mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic consequences. 

  • New Paper: Corporate Profits Central Role in Causing Inflation

    According to a new paper, “nearly two out of three of the biggest U.S. publicly traded companies had larger profit margins this year than they did in 2019, prior to the pandemic. Nearly 100 of these corporations did report profits in 2021 that are 50 percent above profit margins from 2019. Evidence from corporate earnings…

  • National Survey: More Older Adults Unvaccinated and Unboosted Than Previously Reported

    A nationwide survey by the COVID States Project has found that a higher number of older Americans are unvaccinated and unboosted than widely reported in the CDC data used by most public health officials. Researchers say that the survey “sheds light on the critical need to vaccinate and boost older Americans.”

  • Watergate at 50: The Hidden Hand of the CIA

  • Chile Sends in Army Against Indigenous Group

  • Ignoring U.S.-Backed Saudi War Against Yemen

    Aisha Jumaan, Preaident of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, condemned the US backed Saudi attack on Yemen in her latest piece. She says, “The causes of this devastation include a Saudi-led bombing campaign that targets infrastructure, food sources and health services, as well as coercive measures, including a blockade, directed at destroying Yemen’s economy.…

  • Curing Long-Term Covid Infections Could Slow Viral Evolution

    Preliminary evidence suggests that some Covid-19 variants have emerged from long-term Covid infections. As a result, five scientists argue that it is “of the utmost urgency that those with long-term infections should be able to access quality health care” and prioritized for curative therapies.

  • Mexican President Skipping Summit of the Americas

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