War Nerd Radio Creators & Guests

Mark Ames is a journalist.

John Dolan is a poet, author, and essayist.

Author of The Bend of the World, 2014; The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates, 2017; A Cool Customer, 2018. Critic, writes frequently about the convergence of politics and culture.

John Lechner is a freelance journalist.

Jeff Stein is a White House economics reporter at The Washington Post.

Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, and author.

Kelley Vlahos is a senior advisor & contributing editor at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Ryan W. Grim is an American author and journalist. Former Washington, D.C. bureau chief for HuffPost and The Intercept, in July 2024, Grim left The Intercept to co-found Drop Site News. He is author of the book, The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution (2023), among others.

Jonathan M. Katz is a journalist and author.

Co-host of Citations Needed. Fire spitter. Epaulette liker. Tsundoku master. Clinomaniac. Caine-Hackman Theorist.

Mouin Rabbani is an author, researcher, analyst specializing in the contemporary Middle East, and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.

May Jeong is an investigative reporter and magazine writer. She is best known for her investigation in to the MSF hospital bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan for The Intercept, for which she won the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association’s Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Report on South Asia and the Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents in the Young Reporter category.Jeong's work has appeared in The Intercept, New York Times, London Review of Books, Harper’s, Financial Times, and In These Times.Jeong received her B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Vincent Bevins is an American journalist, writer, and author of the book The Jakarta Method.

Annibale is a historian.

Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, and author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming.

Joshua M. Landis is an American academic, writer, author, and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. He specializes in the Middle East and is an expert on Syria.

Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Ali Hasan Abunimah (علي حسن ابو نعمة) is a Palestinian-American journalist who has been described as "the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." A resident of Chicago who contributes regularly to publications such as the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, among others. He served as the vice-president on the board of directors of the Arab American Action Network and is a co-founder of The Electronic Intifada website.