System Update Creators & Guests

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer, journalist, and author.

James Jackson is a sideline reporter at The Sports Fan Base Network.

Jefferson Morley is an editor, reporter, and historian.

Daniel Boguslaw is a journalist.

Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public.

Jenin Younes is a Litigation Counsel at New Civil Liberties Alliance.

Michael Tracey is a Roving journalist

Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Truss is a British politician who is the current prime minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party.

Katherine Franke is a writer, researcher, professor of law, gender and sexuality at Columbia University, and author of the book "Wedlocked."

David J. Sirota (born November 2, 1975) is an American journalist, columnist at the Guardian, and editor for Jacobin Magazine; he is also a political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, political spokesperson, and blogger.In March 2019, he began working as the senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.

Aleksandr Dugin is a philosopher, strategist, and political analyst.

Eric Blanc is a journalist, writer, educator, sociologist, faculty of labor studies at Rutgers University, researching new workplace organizing, strikes, digital labor activism, and working-class politics. A former high school teacher, Blanc is author of the books Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso 2019), and We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (UC Press 2025).

Lee Fang is a journalist. He is currently an investigative reporter at The Intercept. Previously, he was a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer at The Nation. He was also a writer the Republic Report and he began his career as an investigative blogger for ThinkProgress.Fang was raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. He received his B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2009.

Jeffrey Sachs is an economist, academic, public policy analyst, professor, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Aaron Maté is a journalist, contributor to the Nation Magazine, and host of the Pushback show.

Steve Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, former investment banker, and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of U.S. president Donald Trump's administration, before Trump discharged him.

Jonathan Turley is an American attorney, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst.

Abubaker Abed is a Palestinian journalist and commentator.

John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar.