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.About our writers:
* 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.
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 |
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| Profile of John in Le Parisien |
Follow John on Twitter: @aravosis
Joe Sudbay is a DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both the state and federal level. He is the deputy editor of AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog gay.Joe has managed political operations and legislative efforts for both candidates and issues-based organizations. For seven years, he was the Director of State Legislation at Handgun Control, Inc. He served as that organization's first Political Director during the 2000 cycle. Joe has appeared on numerous national and local television and radio shows including the Diane Rehm Show, CNN's Crossfire (when Lynne Cheney was the co-host), and even Hannity and Colmes.
Joe was one of five political bloggers invited to the White House to interview President Obama in October of 2010, making him the first member of the LGBT press to interview the President since being sworn into office. It was during Joe's questioning of the President that we learned the President was "evolving" on the issue of gay marriage.
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| Joe talks DADT on CNN |
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"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
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.
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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