Jonathan Maberry is a Bram Stoker award winning author whose subject matter includes everything from zombies to martial arts. He is also involved in the Young Voices Foundation, and has worked on the serial graphic novel Thrill Ride, a project featuring members of the International Thriller Writers organization. Proceeds from Thrill Ride benefit Reading is Fundamental. Read More »
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Interview With Novelist Jonathan Maberry
By john w connelly jr - Posted on October 31st, 2009
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Progressive Views: Professor Anthony Broccoli on Studying Climate Change
By john w connelly jr - Posted on October 15th, 2009
Professor Anthony Broccoli, Ph.D. is an associate chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, as well as the co-director of the Climate and Environmental Change Initiative and director of the Center for Environmental Prediction for the university. Read More »
Progressive Views: Quadeer Porter on Humanitarianism
By john w connelly jr - Posted on September 20th, 2009
Quadeer Porter, currently a sophomore at Rutgers University, is originally from Newark, NJ. Quadeer is a self-described “humanitarian” whose most recently is working to found a chapter of Journalists for Human Rights on his campus. Quadeer is currently Vice President of EOPSA, a student government organization for students from underprivileged backgrounds. Read More »
Progressive Views: Norma LaVonne Smith on the 2008 Election
By john w connelly jr - Posted on September 5th, 2009
Norma LaVonne Smith is the editor of Hope, Change, and Obama: Notes on an Historic Election, a collection of essays written by the generation mostly responsible for the election of President Obama, high school and college aged students. (Full disclosure: an essay I authored is included). Read More »
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Progressive Views: Dr. Bryant Welch on the Psychology of Politcs
By john w connelly jr - Posted on August 19th, 2009
Dr. Bryant Welch earned his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School before earning his PhD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Welch first lobbied Congress concerning health care reform in 1963, and has been involved in subsequent efforts at health care reform. Read More »
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The Prophets (And Profits) of Hate
By john w connelly jr - Posted on August 17th, 2009
The newscaster looks into the camera. The viewer can read the emotions on his face as he warns that “it is no inexplicable phenomena that there are prophets of hatred in our country.” The date is November 22nd, 1963, and President John Kennedy has been slain by an assassin’s bullet. The newscaster is Chet Huntley, co-anchor of NBC’s Huntley/Brinkley Report. Read More »
Progressive Views: Allison Kilkenny Part 2
By john w connelly jr - Posted on April 29th, 2009
Due to overwelmingly positive feedback from readers of the first interview, I have decided to publish this second interview with blogger, radio host, and humorist Allison Kilkenny. The first part of this interview is poster here : http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/51925-progressive-views-allison-kilkenn... Read More »
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Progressive Views: Allison Kilkenny
By john w connelly jr - Posted on April 26th, 2009
Allison Kilkenny is a political humorist, blogger and co-host of Citizen Radio, an often derisive and never indecisive radio program described as being “like CNN, but with WAY more swearing.” Her work has appeared in The Nation Magazine, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, 23/6, and her own blog, http://allisonkilkenny.wordpress.com/. Recently, we discussed topics ranging from overcrowding in prisons to being G. Gordon Liddy’s “Twitter buddy.” Read More »
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