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  • Matt Kerbel

    I write about politics and the media, and have been doing so since leaving behind a brief career in radio and television news. For 36 years, I was a professor of political science at Villanova University.

  • Chris Bowers

    Chris Bowers is the founder of Bowers News Media, and works with Matthew Kerbel's Wolves and Sheep in the Bowers Kerbel Media collaboration. For 20 years, Chris worked full time writing and coordinating activism for Daily Kos, Open Left and MyDD.

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