Journal of the Plague Years
Susan Zakin, Robert Reich, The Coop Scoop, Joan Juliet Buck, JP Sottile, MR DAVID WEISS, Benjamin Stuart Reed, Bryan C. Del MonteLiterary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.
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Journalist: GQ, Vogue, Salon, The New York Times, etc. Author: Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement, a few others. MFA in fiction. Stepmom to brilliant, amusing boys.
Professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of "Inequality for All" and "Saving Capitalism." Co-founder of Inequality Media
Marc Cooper is an award winning writer, journalist and professor.
Writer.
I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.
Playa, road scholar, insurgent.
Benjamin Stuart Reed is a U.S. Army veteran and writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, The Daily Beast, Le Devoir, and Asia Times. He fought in Ukraine. He is wanted by the Russian Federation for fighting in Ukraine and is writing a memoir.
Writer | Strategist | Media Founder I write The Long Memo, a Substack publication on politics, collapse, and insight into institutional collapse.
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