Summer 2014

Chris Berdik is a freelance science journalist and a former staff editor at the Atlantic and Mother Jones. His first book, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, was published in 2012 by Current, an imprint of Penguin.

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s essays and criticism have appeared in the Believer, the Paris Review, Bookforum, Transition, and Rolling Stone. Her Believer essay, “If He Hollers Let Him Go,” was a 2014 National Magazine Award finalist. She has taught at Columbia University, Bard College, and Eugene Lang College at the New School.

Esther Kaplan is editor of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, an award-winning nonprofit journalism shop, and was the 2013 Josephine Patterson Albright fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She has written for the Nation, the American Prospect, the Village Voice, and other publications, and is the author of With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right (New Press, 2004).