Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class(2010), the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), and his most recentWages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015).
Hedges is currently a host for the television program Days of Revolt onTeleSUR[1] and The Real News,[2] is a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig,[3][4] a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City,[5] and a contributing author forOpEdNews.[6] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,[7] where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2002 Hedges was part of a group of eight reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.[8] He has given lectures as a guest speaker at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University,[7] and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.[8] He has described himself as a socialist.
Based on academic citations, Stiglitz is the 5th most influential economist in the world today, and in 2011 he was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade.
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