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Maha Gaber Abouelenein is the principal of communications firm Organizational Consultants. She focuses on US politics and bridging understanding with Arab cultures, media, and government. She is an active member in the World Economic Forum and the co-Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Richard Abowitz has chronicled the rise and continuing fall of Las Vegas for over a decade. He is the author of hundreds of articles for Las Vegas Weekly. Abowitz is perhaps best known for writing the Movable Buffet blog and continuing print column for Los Angeles Times. In addition to covering Vegas, Abowitz has been writing about music and culture for Rolling Stone since 1996. In December 2009, Abowitz launched GoldPlatedDoor.com to be an honest broker reporting on all things Vegas.
Dan Abrams is CEO of Abrams Research, an attorney, and chief legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Sasha Abramsky is the author of Breadline USA. His next book, a profile of President Barack Obama titled Inside Obama’s Brain, is being published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint in early December.
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale, and the author of 15 books on political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His works include Social Justice in the Liberal State, the multivolume constitutional history, We the People, The Failure of the Founding Fathers and Before the Next Attack.
Edward Adams (1933-2004) was a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist best known for his war coverage. He mostly worked for The Associated Press, Time and Parade. His photographs of human rights defenders from 36 countries were published in a book with Kerry Kennedy, Speak Truth to Power.
Mark Adams is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many of America’s leading magazines, including GQ, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, Fortune and National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. Adams wrote New York magazine’s popular column “It Happened Last Week” and once ran 26 miles alone through the streets of Manhattan for an assignment. Originally from Oak Park, Illinois, he now lives near New York City with his wife and their three sons.
Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times and National Geographic, among other publications. Her Web site is lynseyaddario.com.
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Jerry Adler is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where he writes about medicine, science, and ideas. He is the author of High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper.
Michael Adler, a longtime reporter for Agence France-Presse, is currently a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and is writing a book on Iran’s nuclear diplomacy, which he has covered for most of this decade.
Dr. Arthur Agatston is a leading preventive cardiologist and creator and author of The South Beach Diet. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, Sari.
Prashant Agrawal is CEO of Indipepal.com, India's only social portal. He previously worked at Skadden Arps, McKinsey, and a hedge fund, and is a contributing editor to GQ India and the magazine’s business columnist.
Liaquat Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, a book about the causes of the Great Depression. After working as an economist at the World Bank, he spent 25 years as a professional investment manager in London and New York.
Lee Aitken is an editor and writer who has worked at Time Inc., the New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, and the International Tribune, among others. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her daughter.
Well known Indian journalist M.J. Akbar is the editor of Covert, a fortnightly magazine of current affairs, a blogger and the author of many books, most recently Blood Brothers.
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan is a board member of the United Nations Foundation.
Maysoon Al-Damluji is an Iraqi Member of Parliament and lives in Baghdad, Iraq. A liberal Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner, she was Iraq's Deputy Minister of Culture from June 2004 until March 2006 and is the president of the Iraqi Independent Women's Group (IIWG) and comes from a long line of Iraq politicians.
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., ABPP, is an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
Mike Albo is a writer and performer who lives and loves in Brooklyn. His second novel, (written with Virginia Heffernan) is the cult humor classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. You can find him at mikealbo.com.
Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and chairwoman and principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. In 1997, she was named the first woman secretary of State. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the US permanent representative to the UN. Her latest book is Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.
Linda Alcorace is a writer and Adjunct Professor of English at Santa Monica College. Her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Copley Press.
Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His expertise includes US immigration and visa policies, US trade policy, and the impact of homeland-security policies on US economic competitiveness. He is the author of The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, and is currently directing CFR’s independent task force on US immigration policy.
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly Paris editor of The Paris Review, a senior editor at Harper’s magazine, and a reporter for the Boston Globe, he is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, and Vogue, among other publications.
Matthew Alexander is a pseudonym for a 14 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. As the leader of an elite interrogations team in Iraq, he conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised more than 1,000. He served in three wars and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 2006. He is the author of How to Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.
Paul Alexander is the author of Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove and Man of the People: The Life of John McCain, among others. A member of The Authors Guild and PEN American Center, Paul has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992. She served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is currently a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her autobiography, Infidel, was a 2007 New York Times bestseller.
Lorraine Ali is a Los Angeles-based culture writer who's covered everything from gay divorce to Christian rock to the Arab American experience. She's a Newsweek Contributing Editor and has written for the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone and Esquire. Ali is currently working on a book about her Iraqi family that's due out next year.
Bryan Allain is a writer, speaker, and chemical engineer who lives in Lancaster County, PA with his wife Erica and their two children. He writes daily about the humorous side of life, sports, faith, pop culture, and living among the Amish at his blog, BryanAllain.com.
Colonel Ken Allard (US Army, Ret.) is a draftee who eventually served on the West Point faculty, as Dean of the National War College and as a NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia. He wrote the military review of the U.S. engagement in Somalia. His most recent book, Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War, is a memoir of his ten years as an on-air military analyst with NBC News.
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes about everyday ethics, health, and the right to privacy for scholarly journals and the popular press.
Christian Als is a Danish photojournalist whose work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications around the world. You can see more of his work at his Web site.
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Howard Altman is an editor in the converged newsroom of TBO.com, WFLA-TV and The Tampa Tribune. He has written about jihadi websites since shortly after 9/11, when he broke the story about the Saudi Bin Laden Group website’s pre-set expiration date of 9/11/01. Altman has won more than 50 journalism awards and had his work translated into several languages.
Ronnie Sue Ambrosino is a retired computer analyst originally from New York. She has traveled the country for the last 4 years in a motor home experiencing all the country has to offer. That ended abruptly on Dec. 11th when her only source of income, Bernard Madoff, confessed to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Ronnie Sue is proactively involved in joining together other Madoff victims in an effort to find restitution and recovery at bernardmadoffvictims.org.
Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. He is a regular contributor to eXiled Online.
Kurt Andersen is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century. His new book is called Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage.
Chris Anderson is Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business is Selling Less of More and the new Free: The Future of a Radical Price. He was previously at The Economist and before that in the world of science, starting in physics and ending at the science journals Nature and Science.
Katarina Andersson is a New York-based freelance reporter for Swedish Broadcasting. She previously hosted a popular radio talk show in Sweden and covered politics, economy, and arts for numerous Scandinavian media outlets in the U.S. She lives in Brooklyn with her son.
José Andrés is the host of Made in Spain, a public-television series about Spain’s wine, food, and travel. José and his partners in THINKfoodGROUP are the creative team behind Café Atlantico, Jaleo, Zaytinya, Oyamel and minibar in Washington, D.C.
Nicole Ankowski writes about television, pop culture, and—on occasion—more frivolous matters. She lives in Brooklyn.
Nick Antosca is the author of the novels Midnight Picnic (Word Riot Press, 2009) and Fires (Impetus Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Nerve, Hustler, The New York Sun, Identity Theory, The Barcelona Review, The Huffington Post, and others. He was born in New Orleans and lives in New York, and his blog is Brothercyst.
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Gustavo Arellano writes the syndicated “AskaA Mexican” column for OC Weekly and is the author of Orange County: A Personal History, recently published by Scribner.
Donatella Arpaia co-founded the former restaurant davidburke & donatella with chef David Burke, the success of which propelled her to the forefront of the New York restaurant scene and onto New York’s 50 Most Powerful Women list by the New York Post and “40 Under 40” by Crain’s New York Business. She subsequently opened a string of wildly popular restaurants with chef Michael Psilakis, including Dona, Anthos, Kefi and Mia Dona in New York City, and the recently opened Eos in Miami.
Erin Arvedlund is a financial writer working on a book about the rise and fall of Bernard Madoff, "Too Good to Be True" (Penguin). She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's magazine and TheStreet.com. She worked abroad at The Moscow Times.
Reza Aslan is author of the international bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized World). Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Shaun Assael is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He is the author of three books, including, most recently, Steroid Nation.
James Atlas is the president of Atlas & Co. and founder of the Penguin Lives series. His books include Bellow: A Biography and the memoir My Life in the Middle Ages, and his biography of Delmore Schwartz was nominated for the National Book Award.
Bernard Avishai splits his time between Jerusalem and New Hampshire. He is the author, most recently, of The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last (Harcourt). A former editor of the Harvard Business Review, he blogs at www.bernardavishai.com.
John Avlon’s new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the web and in paperback. Advance orders can be placed here. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
Lila Azam Zanganeh has taught literature and cinema at Harvard University. She is a literary contributor to Le Monde and a host of other European and American publications. In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book—Light of My Life, or How to Net the Incredible Happiness of an Extraordinary Writer—will be published in 2009.
James Bach is a computer software expert, who has taught critical thinking and software testing to rocket and nuclear scientists at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He lives in Eastsound, Washington.
Neal Baer is the Executive Producer of the NBC hit series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and one of the original writers on ER. A Harvard-trained physician, he is one of the first doctors to write a TV drama.
Michael Baigent’s new book is Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World. He is also the author, with Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, of Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail
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Kevin Baker was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts. He graduated from Columbia University in 1980, and since then has earned his living as a writer and editor.
James Balog's nature photography has received international acclaim, including the Leica Medal of Excellence. He is the author of six monographs, including Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife.
Ashleigh Banfield is co-anchor of Courtside on IN SESSION, and hosts Disorder in the Court with Ashleigh Banfield. She previously served as a correspondent and anchor for NBC News and MSNBC.
Lauren Barack writes on subjects from Twitter to identity theft, Bollywood to childcare. She received the Loeb Award for online journalism in 2009. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, Parenting magazine, MSN Money, the St. Petersburg Times, and The Independent among other publications. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, 6-year-old daughter and a school of fish.
Eliza Barclay is a journalist in Washington, D.C. In 2007, she reported from Tanzania as a fellow with the International Reporting Project.
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
Bob Barker is best known as the epitome of game show hosts, having recently retired after 50 years on television, and 35 years of hosting The Price Is Right—the longest running game show in TV history. His memoir, Priceless Memories was recently released by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Group.
For almost five years, Kim Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, directing coverage of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. After the Tribune decided to cut back on foreign coverage, Barker quit in May to write a book and become the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mike Barnicle has been a newspaper—remember them?—columnist for 35 years. He is a contributing commentator on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program.
Robert Barr is a freelance writer for The Daily Beast. He has also written for Women’s Wear Daily, Hint, Paper, Flaunt and his blog, The Barr Code.
Allen Barra writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice. He also writes about books for Salon.com, Bookforum, and the Washington Post. His latest book is Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee.
Bruce Bartlett helped develop supply-side economics while on the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp in the 1980s. In 2006 he was fired by a conservative think tank for writing a book critical of George W. Bush from a conservative point of view, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. His new book, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, was published Oct. 13.
Jack Bass, co-author of Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, is currently writing Justice Abandoned (the story of the Supreme Court and the road to Jim Crow) for Pantheon Books. He is professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.
Shermakaye Bass is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. She has written for People, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times, and Texas Highways, among others.
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is a cookbook author, restaurateur, and one of the best-loved chefs on television. Her cookbooks include her latest, Lidia’s Italy, a companion book to her Emmy-nominated television series, as well as Lidia’s Family Table, Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen, Lidia’s Italian Table, La Cucina di Lidia. She is the chef/owner of New York restaurants Felidia, Becco, Esca, and Del Posto, and Lidia's in Kansas City and Pittsburgh. For full bio, click here.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
General John Batiste was commander of the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army in Iraq in 2003, and retired as a major general in November 2005.
Dan Baum has been a staff writer at The New Yorker and a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Nine Lives, a book about Hurricane Katrina.
Marty Beckerman is the author of Generation S.L.U.T. (MTV Books) and Dumbocracy (Disinformation). He has written for Playboy, Discover, Radar and Huffington Post. His website is www.MartyBeckerman.com.
The writer is a college senior in Philadelphia majoring in journalism and economics, and is an intern at a public-relations firm. She hopes to work in broadcast journalism after completing a graduate degree. Melissa Beech is a pseudonym.
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
Ralph Begleiter was CNN’s World Affairs Correspondent from 1981-1999. He teaches journalism and political science at the University of Delaware.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June.
Jason Bellini is a freelance TV journalist who has worked for MTV, CBS, and CNN. In 2006, he received the Journalist of the Year award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
Rich Benjamin is senior fellow at Demos, a New York-based nonpartisan think tank. His book on the future of white America will be published by Hyperion in 2009.
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of Bravo's Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
Bradley Berman is the editor of HybridCars.com and writes about hybrids for BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and other publications.
Paul Berman is the author of a two-volume history of the generation of 1968, A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists.
Russell Berman served as Washington correspondent for the New York Sun, covering the presidential campaign and Congress. He has also written for Newsday and the Hartford Courant.
Louis de Bernières, author of the bestselling novel Corelli’s Mandolin, was selected by Granta as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists in 1993. He lives in Norfolk, England.
Carl Bernstein shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for his coverage of Watergate for The Washington Post. His most recent book is the acclaimed biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President’s Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. He is also the author of Loyalties, a memoir about his parents during McCarthy–era Washington.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Richard Bernstein is a writer based in New York. He is a former China correspondent for Time Magazine and bureau chief of the New York Times in Paris and Berlin. His new book is The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.
J. J. Berzelius (1779-1848) was one of the fathers of modern chemistry, having worked out the technique of chemical formula notation. He was also the person who first identified silicon, selenium, thorium, and serium.
Acclaimed chef John Besh has set the benchmark for fine dining in New Orleans with four successful restaurants: Restaurant August, Besh Steak, Lüke, and La Provence. He won the James Beard Award for Best Chef of the Southeast in 2006. His cookbook My New Orleans, which focuses on the food traditions of his home, was released earlier this year.
Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning journalist and former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time magazine, who has been based out of the Middle East since 1996. He is the author of Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society. He is also the author of the Omar Yussef series of Palestinian crime novels, including The Collaborator of Bethlehem and The Samaritan’s Secret, which was published in February.
Paras D. Bhayani is a senior at Harvard and the managing editor of the Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper.
Fatima Bhutto is a graduate of Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is working on a book to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010. Fatima lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
Stanley Bing is a longtime columnist for Fortune and the author of several books, most recently How To Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace. His other books include What Would Machiavelli Do, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, and Executricks.
Clara Bingham is the co-author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law and author of Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. A former Newsweek correspondent who covered the first Bush White House, Bingham has also written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Monthly, and Talk.
Based in Japan for more than 20 years, Lucy Birmingham has written for Bloomberg News, Architectural Digest, The Boston Globe, Artinfo.com, Artforum.com, ARTnews, among other publications. As a photojournalist her work has appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, and A Day in the Life of Japan. She has published several books including Old Kyoto - A Guide to Shops, Inns and Restaurants.
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green are co-authors of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, which is out in paperback next month. Bishop is NewYork bureau chief of The Economist and on Twitter @mattbish. Green is a writer and consultant. They blog at www.philanthrocapitalism.net.
Buzz Bissinger is the author of the New York Times number one bestseller Friday Night Lights. His most recent book, Shooting Stars, was co-authored with LeBron James.
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.
Dustin Lance Black is the Oscar-winning writer of Milk, the 2008 film about gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk.
Cherie Blair is a leading international barrister specializing in human-rights law. She is married to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, and lives with her family in London.
Tony Blair is founder of the Breaking the Climate Deadlock Initiative and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007. Visit tonyblairoffice.org.
Eric Blehm is the author of The Last Season, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for best nonfiction book of 2006 and was a Book Sense bestseller; Outside magazine called it one of the “top ten adventure biographies ever written.” He lives in Southern California.
Jonathan Blitzer is a freelance writer and translator living in New York. He also works at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School.
David Blum, former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice and The New York Press, teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Flash in the Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant and Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes.
Lesley M. M. Blume is a writer and journalist based in New York City, where she was born. The author of three books for Knopf, Ms. Blume has worked for Cronkite Productions, The Jordan Times in Amman, and ABC News Nightline; her articles have appeared in many publications, from Slate to Vogue.
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, is executive producer of the Oscar winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," and author most recently of "The Strange Death of Republican America."
Eric Boehlert is Senior Fellow for Media Matters for America and a former writer for Salon and Rolling Stone. He is author of Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press as well as Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.
Brian Boitano is a Gold medal-winning figure skater and the host of the new Food Network show, What Would Brian Boitano Make?
John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, D.C.
Robert Bookman has been a senior motion picture literary and director’s agent at Creative Artists Agency since 1986 and is a partner. Prior to that, he was executive vice-president, production at Columbia Pictures, vice-president in charge of production at ABC Motion Pictures, and an agent at ICM. He is involved in various organizations as well, including Doctors Without Borders/USA, the Los Angeles Center for the Performing Arts, and the Yale Law School Campaign Committee.
William Boot covered the war in Ishmaelia and wrote the Lush Places column for The Daily Beast. He now reviews bestsellers.
Writer and comedian Andy Borowitz's work has appeared in Condé Nast Portfolio, the New Yorker and The New York Times. His Web site is BorowitzReport.com.
Laird Borrelli-Persson is the Senior Features Editor at Style.com, the on-line home of Vogue and W magazines. She co-authored Bags: A Lexicon of Style with Valerie Steele, and has published four other titles: Fashion Illustration Now, Fashion Illustration Next, Net Mode: Web Fashion Now, and, most recently, Fashion Drawings by Fashion Designers (2008). She also contributes to a international magazines and comments on contemporary fashion for various media outlets.
