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.

  • Scrutinizing Kamala Harris

    Sen. Kamala Harris — chosen on Tuesday by Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential pick — has been criticized by Homewreckers author Aaron Glantz for “spiking an investigation against” current Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for foreclosure fraud while he headed up OneWest Bank. See IPA news release: “Kamala Harris’ Claims About Her Record on Big…

  • Do the Climate Solutions Offered Meet the Moment?

    “President Donald Trump is down in the polls, but was up for a speech at a fracking rig in a COVID-19 hotspot, one with no masks in sight.”

  • Despite Promises, Is Trump Aiming to Slash Social Security?

    “Trump’s plan to eliminate Social Security’s revenue stream would destroy the one source of retirement income that people can count on.”

  • If TikTok is Tool of China, Aren’t Facebook, Google and Twitter Tools of U.S. Gov’t?

    “You’ve probably heard about this whole TikTok business. Donald Trump has given the company 45 days to either sell itself to an American firm or be banished from our borders.”

  • Lebanon Explosion

    “This catastrophe was neither a natural disaster, nor an accident, nor an external act of terror. This explosion was caused by the criminal negligence of men — encouraged by a political system designed to build clients and not see citizens.”

  • Implications of Pro-War Susan Rice as VP Nominee

    “Should Susan Rice be chosen as Biden’s running mate, it would serve as yet another signal that the likely next Democratic administration would embrace a foreign policy similar to that of Bush and Cheney.”

  • Billionaires Promised to Give Away Half Their Wealth, Instead, They Doubled it

    Aug 4, 2020 is the 10th anniversary of the “Giving Pledge,” started by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

  • Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up

    Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s running mate, repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by the Prospect.

  • The Decisions to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Several leading scholars are available for interviews on the decisions to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago.

  • In Ecuador, Move to Keep Former President off Ballot Denounced

    More than 20 former presidents and high-level government officials in Latin America are “denounc[ing] and reject[ing] the decision made by the National Election Council of Ecuador to eliminate the electoral registration of the party Fuerza Compromiso Social, which is partly formed by the members of the Revolución Ciudadana [Citizens’ Revolution] movement, led by former President Rafael Correa,”…

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