AMERICAblog is a journal of news and opinion about US politics, both domestic and foreign, from a progressive point of view. Follow AMERICAblog on Twitter:
@americablog
AMERICAblog was created by
John Aravosis, a former writer for the Economist with a joint law degree/masters in foreign service from Georgetown and over twenty years experience working in national politics in Washington, DC. At AMERICAblog, we don't just link to the news, we give you an insider's look at what's important and why.
AMERICAblog launched on April 24, 2004, and quickly became one of the most influential political blogs in the United States, with monthly traffic of over 1 million page views and 400,000 unique readers (Google Analytics). The AMERICAblog family of sites now includes
AMERICAblog Gay (2009) and
AMERICAblog Elections (2011). In addition to analyzing the day's news, AMERICAblog has broken a number of high-profile stories, including:
* BP photoshops fake photo of oil spill crisis command center to make it look busy.
* Conservative White House reporter Jeff Gannon exposed as male prostitute.
* AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark’s cell phone records for $89.95. (We also were responsible for "pretexting" finally being outlawed in this country.)
* Mormons secretly baptize Obama's deceased mother.
* Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children.
About our writers:
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| John Aravosis |
John Aravosis is a Washington, DC-based writer and political consultant, specializing in using the Internet for politics. He is the editor-in-chief of
AMERICAblog,
AMERICAblog Gay, and
AMERICAblog Elections: The Right's Field.
John has a degree in rhetoric from the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana), a diploma from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown University. John's writing experience includes working as a stringer for both the
Economist and RADAR, and having been published in the
New Republic and
New York Daily News, among others. Washingtonian magazine’s annual “50 Best Journalists” issue named John one of “journalism's rising stars, those likely to have a major impact in coming years.” John has also been honored as one of the “Out 100,” and by the Advocate as one of the fifty “most powerful gay men and women in America.”
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| John talks 2012 on CNN |
John’s policy experience includes working as a legislative attorney in the United States Senate, a consultant at the World Bank, and a children's right's advocate at the Children's Defense Fund. In 1997,
John launched his own political Internet consulting firm, with clients ranging from governments (US Department of State, HHS, CDC, the city of Barcelona, the Social Democratic Party of Sweden) to non-profits (ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NEA, AFSCME). John continues consulting to this day.
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| Profile of John in Le Parisien |
John is also a frequent TV pundit, and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor,
Hardball with Chris Matthews, ABC News, Nightline,
CNN's Reliable Sources,
MSNBC and more. John is also regularly quoted in
American and
foreign media. John speaks five languages (has worked and done interviews in
French,
Spanish and
Italian), and has visited or worked in 29 countries, including conducting lectures and training about the Internet and politics in France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Greece, Morocco, Indonesia and Cote d'Ivoire.
Follow John on Twitter:
@aravosis
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| Chris Ryan |
"Chris in Paris" is an American living in Paris, France. Chris graduated from Ohio State with a BA in History and Political Science. He has offered consulting services to US and Israeli software startups for launching new business overseas for over 15 years. Chris dropped everything (courtesy of the bubble bursting) and suited up a backpack with his wife for a year to visit the world in 2002-2003, where he discovered that living on the cheap was easy and fun, traveling across Southeast Asia, Japan, Central America and southern Africa. Between work and fun, Chris has traveled across six continents and over 46 countries and still dreams of seeing the mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda. Chris' focus on AMERICAblog is writing about Wall Street, the economy, and foreign affairs.
Gaius Publius is a professional writer living on the west coast of the United States. Follow Gaius on Twitter:
@gaius_publius
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| Chris Andoe |
Chris Andoe is an Oakland based writer and seasoned activist.
After meeting John Aravosis at a Chicago "StopDrLaura.com" protest in 2000, Chris was inspired to organize his own major demonstrations in St. Louis, which drew national attention. Since then, his activism has revolved around LGBT, affordable housing, and mass transit issues. Most recently, he made headlines when publicly objecting to the amorphous hacker group Anonymous' decision to publish nude photos of a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesperson, saying "Puritanical shame-based tactics have no place in the capital of sexual liberation".
Always in the fray, Andoe's been interviewed by NPR, CBS, and has been quoted from CNN to The St. Louis Post Dispatch. He's a regular contributor to AMERICAblog and covers the West Coast for the Vital Voice.
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| Gabriel Arana |
Gabriel Arana is the Assistant Web Editor at The American Prospect in Washington, D.C. His pieces have appeared in The Nation, Slate, The Advocate, the Daily Beast, and other publications. He is a graduate of Yale University and a native of Nogales, Arizona.
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| Paul Hogarth |
Paul Hogarth is a lawyer at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, having worked there since 2000. He has a Bachelors in Political Science from UC Berkeley, and a J.D. from Golden Gate University. Paul made his first run for public office at the age of 22, when he was elected to the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board. After one term, he moved to San Francisco where he is actively involved in local politics. In 2006, Paul was hired as the Managing Editor of
Beyond Chron, a blog published by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic that was voted "Best Local Website" in 2008 by the SF Bay Guardian. He is active in the netroots (cross-posting at Daily Kos, Open Left, Huffington Post, Calitics and is now writing at AmericaBlog.) Paul was voted "Best State and Local Blogger" at the Netroots Nation conference in 2010.
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