Daily Briefing - Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Rodolfo Espino is a professor of political science at Arizona State University specializing in American politics, racial politics, and political behavior. He is the editor of Latino Politics: Identify, Mobilization, and Representation, and co-director of the Minority Language Assistance Research Project.

Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Public Policy research in Washington, D.C. He writes a regular column for the Guardian and Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo. His opinion pieces appear regularly in The New York Times, Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times among other prominent papers. He co-authored the book Social Security: The Phony Crisis and co-wrote Oliver Stone’s documentary South of the Border. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy, a non-partisan organization dedicated to reforming U.S. Foreign Policy.

Alex Hinton is an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University with a focus on genocide and political violence in Southeast Asia. He has written and edited several books on this topic including the forthcoming Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation and the Stirling Award winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. He is currently in the process of writing several other books addressing the aftermath of genocide and the reconcilation process. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolutions, and Human Rights.