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Public Sphere

Luke Johnson, Claire Potter, Frida Ghitis, Mark Leon Goldberg, Dave Keating, Jo-Ann Mort: A Precise Chaos, Olena Kryzhanivska

A newsletter by Luke Johnson on democratic erosion in the U.S. and abroad with a special focus on Russia's war in Ukraine.

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Luke Johnson
  • Claire Potter

    Historian | Author of "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020) | The New York Times, The New Republic, Yale Review, DAME

  • Frida Ghitis

    Long-time journalist, former CNN producer and correspondent, contributing columnist Washington Post, contrib CNN, CNNE, Sr. Columnist World Politics Review. TV talker on world affairs. Saw history unfold with my own eyes in >70 countries.

  • Mark Leon Goldberg

    Mark Leon Goldberg is a veteran international affairs journalist who writes the Global Dispatches Substack and hosts the Global Dispatches podcast. https://www.globaldispatches.org/

  • Dave Keating

    Dave Keating is an American-European journalist based in Brussels covering the European Union and the trials and tribulations of the wider European project.

  • Jo-Ann Mort: A Precise Chaos

    Author, A Precise Chaos, 1st poetry book (Arrowsmith Press). Respected journalist re Israel/Palestine. List of publications on website www.jo-annmort.com. Longtime social democratic activist. Lives in Bklyn. Steering Comm, @WritersforDemocraticAction

  • Olena Kryzhanivska

    Defence Analyst - Ukraine, Russia; Senior Editor at the NATO Association of Canada; PhD in Political Science

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