is Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has taught health care finance, regulation and planning, management, and introductory courses since 1983. He’s currently investigating causes and effects of urban hospital closings in 52 U.S. cities over the past 75 years. You can find his […]

has served as the executive director of Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, for nearly 15 years. Wright led California’s coalition effort to help pass the Affordable Care Act, as well as state efforts to implement and improve it, and other campaigns to win key patient protections and coverage expansions. This […]

is the author of three books on the Olympic Games, most recently Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. A Fulbright research fellow in Brazil in fall 2015, he teaches political science at Pacific University in Oregon. His website is www.julesboykoff.org. Portions of this article were adapted from his book Power Games.

is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York. He is also the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Harvard University Press).

is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell University since 1977. He is a specialist in rock mechanics and hydraulic fracturing. He researched and consulted for the oil and gas industry for over 20 years, and is the co-author of recent papers on methane emissions and loss of wellbore integrity from shale gas operations.

is on faculty in the Criminology Department at the University of South Florida. She is a national expert on biased law enforcement and trains state and local law enforcement leadership in the United States and Canada in “Fair and Impartial Policing.” Her most recent book (Springer 2016) is Producing Bias-Free Policing: A Science-Based Approach.

is Director of the UK in a Changing Europe. You can follow him on Twitter @anandMenon1.

is a Research Fellow in Criminal Justice at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

is the Senior Associate for Regional Security Policy at the Washington Office on Latin America. He joined WOLA in 2010 after 14 years working on Latin American and Caribbean security issues with the Center for International Policy. At WOLA, his Regional Security Policy program monitors security trends and U.S. military cooperation with the Western Hemisphere.

is CEO of Hunger Free America, a nationwide nonprofit advocacy organization. He is author of the books All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? and the forthcoming America, We Need to Talk: A Self Help Book for the Nation, which will be published in early 2017 by Seven Stories Press.