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I have written and taught for 26 years about constitutional law, specializing in the freedom of expression and with secondary interests in gun regulation, law and religion, and regulations of the political process. I wrote Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2017). I have published dozens...

Gautama Mehta is the the 2024-2025 Grist environmental justice reporting fellow.

Halimah Abdullah is an award winning veteran national political journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering politics and government at the local, state, and federal level. She has edited and helped manage Washington coverage for such organizations as PolitiFact, Newsela, NPR, ABC News and NBC News — networks...

For more than two decades, I’ve covered national security, tracing policies from their origins in Washington to their effects on the ground in the United States and across the globe. As a bureau chief in Baghdad and Cairo, my reporting focused on authoritarian regimes, human rights, diplomacy and the threat...

I’m a London-based writer and journalist working on news and features. I’ve contributed to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, WIRED, VICE, Positive News, The Telegraph, Fabulous magazine, The Independent and i Paper, among others. I also worked as a staff sub-editor at Newsweek for four years. In 2020 I...

Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based independent journalist and author. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Haaretz, and Berliner Zeitung, among others.

Hayden Betts is an Austin-based summer reporting fellow. He has reported on the criminal legal system for The Appeal and The American Prospect and recently covered health, housing, and politics in the South Bronx for the Mott Haven Herald. Hayden is a master's student in local accountability reporting at the...

Hayley Harding is a Detroit-based reporter who has covered government and the people who run it at all levels. She covers voting and election administration in Michigan. Before that, she was a data journalist on The Detroit News’ investigations team, where she covered population trends, social problems, and more. She...