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.

  • Republicans Dying at Higher Rates Since Vaccine Rollout Began

    The National Bureau of Economic Research found that significantly more Republicans than Democrats have died from Covid-19 since the initial vaccine rollout in 2021. 

  • Ukraine: Stopping the Escalatory Ladder

    Carden is a former adviser to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the U.S. Department of State. He has written for The Nation, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, The Spectator, UnHerd and other outlets.

  • Pandemic’s Effects on Employment and Disability Among Older Americans

    A new working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research found that labor force non-participation remains high in older Americans. Disability benefits, meanwhile, are depressed relative to pre-pandemic levels.

  • Should All Adults Under 65 Get Screened for Anxiety?

    the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that primary care doctors should regularly screen all adults under 65 for anxiety, even those without symptoms. Neuroscientist and anxiety specialist Judson Brewer says that “screening by itself is not so helpful. If you screen for something you don’t have a treatment for––who cares?”

  • How Nuclear Wars Can Start: Nuclear War Exercise, Then and Now

    For the first time since World War II, troops were also deployed to The Netherlands. The unprecedented nature of the troop movements certainly attracted Soviet attention.

  • New National Data on Long Covid

    In a report on new Census data from the Household Pulse Survey from September, the Center for Economic and Policy Research write that about 4.4 million adults report symptoms from long Covid that reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities by a lot.

  • Activists Demand a Halt to NATO Nuclear War Rehearsals; Congressional Action

    RootsAction.org has launched a campaign “Tell Congress and President Biden to make NATO cease its nuclear war rehearsals.”

  • Biden Pleads on Stock BuyBacks, but Why the Inaction?

    “in 2005-2015 Exxon Mobil distributed $224 billion in buybacks on top of $101 billion in dividends (a combined 86 percent of net income). As Vice President, Biden was an outspoken critic of stock buybacks, and he should know that an executive order that bans buybacks is the only way in which the oil companies will cease using the profits…

  • Call for Banning Killer Drones, from Ukraine to Ethiopia

    “”Killer drones are a particularly inhumane type of warfare with high error rates causing the deaths of civilians. Moreover, killer drones seek to desensitize us from war, make war seem ‘easier’ and thereby increase the chances of yet more wars.”

  • Critics of Intervention in Haiti

    Experts say “the last thing the Haitian people want is another ‘humanitarian’ invasion and occupation by the U.S. and the ‘Core Group.'”

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