Andrew L. Yarrow is a former New York Times reporter, professor of U.S. history, and author of six books and more than 1,000 articles. He has also worked for the U.S. Department of Labor, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Brookings Institution, Public Agenda, American University, and Oxfam, and has consulted for a wide range of organizations, including the World Bank, UNICEF, the U.S. Department of Education, the Kettering Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Progressive Policy Institute.