Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a journalist and author who spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent, including fifteen years at The New York Times, where he served as Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He was part of the Times team awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of global terrorism, and received Amnesty International's Global Award for Human Rights Journalism the same year. He left the paper in 2005 after a formal reprimand for publicly opposing the Iraq War. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; American Fascists; Empire of Illusion; and Our Class, drawn from a decade teaching writing in New Jersey prisons. With the cartoonist Joe Sacco he wrote the New York Times bestseller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He hosts The Chris Hedges Report and writes a weekly column for Scheerpost.