Author
is a journalist, critic, and essayist. His new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, uses extensive original reporting to provide a road map for a sustainable and survivable 21st-century economy. He has spent years covering policy and ideas for The New Yorker magazine and has contributed front page breaking news stories, profiles, and essays to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and many other venues. He teaches in the graduate school of journalism at UC, Berkeley