Chris Hedges is a journalist, cultural critic, author, and Presbyterian minister. For nearly two decades, he was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005, and has contributed journalism to The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times’ coverage of global terrorism. Hedges is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto.

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-born cartoonist and journalist based in Portland. He is a seminal figure in comics journalism, establishing the form’s seriousness and legitimacy in the 1990s with his groundbreaking investigative graphic novel Palestine. He has since become the most prominent figure in the genre he virtually created, and has published numerous investigative works of graphic journalism, including Safe Area Goražde, Footnotes in Gaza, Paying the Land, and his most recent book, The Once and Future Riot. He is also the co-author with Chris Hedges of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Sacco is the recipient of the American Book Award, multiple Eisner and Harvey awards, and in 2023 was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta.

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