Ms. Magazine. She wrote her first book about the history of Ms. Magazine, entitled Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement. Thom graduated from Bryn Mawr College.]]> Washington Examiner, a historian, and a journalist. Barone was a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, which is a reference work on Congress and state politics. He received a Bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a Law degree from Yale Law School.]]> Musician, writer, filmmaker and activist Michael Simmons was dubbed “The Father Of Country Punk” by Creem magazine in the 1970s. He was an editor of the National Lampoon in the ’80s where he wrote the popular column “Drinking Tips And Other War Stories” and won an LA Press Club Award in the ’90s for his investigative journalism for the LA Weekly. He has written for MOJO, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, LA Weekly, The New York Times, LA Times, High Times, Artillery, CounterPunch, The Rag Blog, The Progressive and Dangerous Minds and has scribed liner notes for Bob Dylan, Michael Bloomfield, Phil Ochs, Kris Kristofferson, Mose Allison, Kinky Friedman, Arthur Lee & Love and Paul Krassner. He wrote and co-produced the documentary The Real Rocky about boxer Chuck Wepner.]]> The 1990s and the author of the book Video Days.]]>