About Me

I created and hosted a History Channel special about sex and politics called Beltway Unbuckled. My latest book Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy was co-authored with Senator Mike Gravel (Phoenix Books: 2008). I was the Communications Director for Gravel’s 2008 presidential campaign and now I teach media and politics at Columbia University where I earned a PhD in American history in 2006.