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Liza Featherstone
Liza Featherstone writes the Nation magazine’s advice column, “Asking for a Friend.” 

Andrew Hartman
Andrew Hartman teaches history at Illinois State University and is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars.

Kevin M. Kruse
Kevin M. Kruse is professor of history at Princeton University.

Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is the author of Against White Feminism (W.W. Norton, 2021) and Veil (Bloomsbury, 2017). She is a columnist for Dawn in Pakistan. She’s written for the Guardian, Boston Review, The New Republic, and The New York Times Book ...

Matt Cameron
Matt Cameron is the managing partner of Cameron Micheroni & Silvia, a small East Boston law office specializing in deportation defense, asylum, and post-conviction criminal matters. He teaches immigration policy at Northeastern University and serves on the board of the ...

Rick Paulas
Rick Paulas has written for The Awl, Vice, Pacific Standard, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. His work can be found at rickpaulas.com, and his serialized novel-in-progress at oaktownnoir.com.

Stephen Kearse
Stephen Kearse is a freelance writer and critic in Washington, D.C.

Justin Clark
Justin Clark is an assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research on deception in the Progressive Era is forthcoming in the academic journal American Journalism.

Megan Nolan
Megan Nolan is an Irish writer and artist based in London.

Martha Bayne
Martha Bayne is the editor of three anthologies of writing about Chicago and the Midwest, a senior editor at the University of Illinois Press, and a contributing editor for Chicago’s South Side Weekly newspaper. Her work has appeared in many local and national outlets, ...

Nikkitha Bakshani
Nikkitha Bakshani is an editor at The Morning News and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared on Departures.com, The Rumpus, The Paris Review Daily, and more. She tweets at @nikkitwitta