“USA TODAY online chats” |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:37 PM PDT
| USA TODAY's Editorial Page gives readers the chance to talk with its contributors and columnists through occasional live online chats. A list of chats we've already conducted is contained on this page. Check back frequently for upcoming talks. If there's a USA TODAY columnist or contributor you'd like to chat with, suggest a live online discussion by e-mailing erivers@usatoday.com. Oil spill in the Gulf with Nick Jans June 8: Nick Jans is one of Alaska's most recognized writers. A contributing editor to Alaska magazine and a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, he's written nine books and hundreds of magazine articles and has contributed to many anthologies. He writes poetry, short fiction, literary essays, natural history, outdoor adventure and political commentary. In addition, Jans is a professional nature photographer, specializing in wildlife and landscapes in remote locations. This year, he received an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) for his book The Glacier Wolf: True Stories of Life in Southeast Alaska. He has also received two Ben Franklin Medals (2007 and 2008) and a Rasmuson Foundation artist grant (2009). He lives in Juneau with his wife, Sherrie, and travels widely in Alaska. He returns each year to Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq Eskimo village in which he lived for 20 years, and the place he still considers home. To access Jans' chat, click here. Constitutionality of health care mandate with Jonathan Turley March 31: Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written more than three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard and Northwestern. In addition to writing for USA TODAY, Turley's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Turley teaches constitutional law, constitutional criminal law, environmental law, litigation and torts at George Washington University. To access Turley's chat, click here. The future of capitalism with Alan Webber March 16: Alan Webber is a writer, editor and author and launched Fast Company magazine with William Taylor. The business magazine has won national awards for excellence and design. Webber was named Adweek?s Editor of the Year in 1999. Before Fast Company, Webber was the managing editor and editorial director of the Harvard Business Review. His columns and articles have appeared in numerous national publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and The Washington Post. He is the author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self, Going Global and Changing Alliances. To access Webber's chat, click here. GOP and filibuster with DeWayne Wickham Feb. 17: DeWayne Wickham is a columnist for USA TODAY and other Gannett newspapers. He began his journalism career in 1973 as a copy editing intern at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Wickham has worked as a Capitol Hill correspondent for US News & World Report, a reporter for The Sun and The Evening Sun of Baltimore, a Washington correspondent for Black Enterprise magazine, a commentator for CBS News, and panelist on Lead Story, Black Entertainment Television?s long-running Sunday morning news analysis program. A member of the University of Maryland?s Philip Merrill College of Journalism's board of visitors, Wickham also serves on the advisory board of the Newseum, the nation's largest interactive museum of news. To access Wickham's chat, click here. Turning the tide in Afghanistan with Mike O'Hanlon Feb. 16: Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution who specializes in national security and defense policy. He is co-author of the new book Toughing It Out in Afghanistan, and is senior author of the institution's Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan index projects. Before joining Brookings, O'Hanlon worked as a national security analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His current research agenda includes military strategy and technology, Northeast Asia, U.S. Central Command and defense budgets, among other issues. O'Hanlon recently served on the secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board. To access O'Hanlon's chat, click here. Global warming with Rob Young and Orrin Pilkey Jan. 7: Orrin Pilkey is a James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He is a coastal geologist with particular interest in the impact of humans on shorelines and beaches and the impact of sea level rise on humans. He has written books on coastal hazards, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, mathematical models and, most recently, sea level rise (The Rising Sea, 2009) with Rob Young. Young is a professor of coastal geology at Western Carolina University and a licensed professional geologist. Young directs the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, which is a joint academic venture between Western Carolina University and Duke. To access the Pilkey and Young chat, click here. Afghanistan and strategy with Michael Chertoff Nov. 11: Former Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff is the author of the recent book Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years. He served in the department from Febuary 2005 through January 2009. In 2001, Chertoff served as the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice where he oversaw the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also formed the Enron Task Force, which produced more than 20 convictions, including those of CEOs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay. To access Chertoff's chat, click here. Science and faith used to be allies with Mark Pinsky Nov. 3: Mark Pinsky was a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science & Religion at the University of Cambridge in 2008. He is the author of the best selling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of America's Most Animated Family, The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, and A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed. From 1995 to 2008, he covered religion for the Orlando Sentinel, specializing in evangelical Christianity in the Sunbelt. Before that he reported for the Los Angeles Times. Pinsky is completing a nonfiction book on the life and unsolved murder of Nancy Dean Morgan, an anti-poverty worker in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in 1970. His next book is on the best practices of religious congregations that make themselves accessible to people with disabilities, to be published in 2010 by the Alban Institute. To access Pinsky's chat, click here. Roe and political discourse with David P. Gushee Sept. 28: David P. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and the president of Evangelicals for Human Rights. Raised in Virginia, he earned a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary in 1984, a master's degree in divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1987 and a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Gushee came to Mercer in 2007 from Union University, where he served for 11 years. Currently, Gushee's research interests focus on issues emerging at the intersection between Christian faith, ethics and public policy. He published two books in 2008, The Future of Faith in American Politics (Baylor University Press) and The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy (Mercer University Press). To access Gushee's chat, click here. Secret to school success with Laura Vanderkam Sept. 2: New York City-based journalist Laura Vanderkam is a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors. She is the author of the forthcoming 168 Hours (Portfolio, 2010) and of Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). Her work has appeared inScientific American, Reader's Digest and other publications, and she hosts a blog about gifted education called Gifted Exchange. To access Vanderkam's chat, click here. Evolution-faith connection with Karl Giberson Aug. 10: Karl Giberson is the president of the BioLogos Foundation, director of Gordon College's Forum on Faith and Science, co-director of the Venice Summer School on Science and Religion, a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, and the author of four books, including his latest Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. To access Giberson's chat, click here. Moving toward race neutrality with Lucinda Roy July 29: Lucinda Roy is an alumni distinguished professor at Virginia Tech, where she has taught since 1985. Author of the novels Lady Moses and The Hotel Alleluia, and two poetry collections, her latest book is a memoir entitled No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech, published by Harmony Books. She is the recipient of numerous writing and teaching awards, and frequently makes presentations on creativity, diversity and higher education. To access Roy's chat, click here. Obama's potential foreign policy trap with Ralph Peters July 14: Ralph Peters is a former Army officer who rose from the enlisted ranks. He retired in 1998, after his promotion to lieutenant colonel. As a soldier and civilian, he has experience in more than 70 countries. He's the author of 24 books, including works on military and international affairs, best-selling and prize-winning novels (written under his own name or as Owen Parry), and an adventure-travel memoir. His latest novel, The War After Armageddon, will be published on Sept. 15. In demand as a commentator and essayist on security matters and the international scene, Peters has been an opinion columnist for The New York Post since 2002. A member of the board of contributors at USA TODAY, he also serves on the advisory board at Armchair General Magazine and is a contributing editor for Armed Forces Journal. He has covered conflicts in Iraq, Israel and sub-Saharan Africa, has published more than 800 essays, columns and reviews, and is Fox News' first strategic analyst. To access Peters' chat, click here. Religion and historical purification with James Reston Jr. July 7: James Reston Jr., recently published his 15th book Defenders of the Faith, the basis for his USA TODAY column. He has also written three plays and numerous articles in national magazines. Reston won the Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 radio documentary on National Public Radio, Father Cares: the Last of Jonestown. His last four works on history, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, Warriors of God, and Dogs of God have been translated into 12 languages. Warriors of God and Collision at Home Plate have been optioned by Hollywood. In 1976 and 1977, Reston was David Frost's Watergate adviser for the famous Frost-Nixon interviews. His narrative of that experience was published in 2007 and titled The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews. The manuscript was a considerable inspiration for the play Frost/Nixon, and the movie, in which Reston was a major character. To access Reston's chat, click here. Faith, science and the brain with Barbara Bradley Hagerty June 23: Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for National Public Radio, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May. Bradley Hagerty has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association award for radio reporting. To access Bradley Hagerty's chat, click here |
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