Debbie Bookchin is a long time journalist and author who has won awards for her news, feature, and investigative reporting. In addition to her book The Virus and the Vaccine, she has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and The Nation, and coedited a book of essays by her father, Murray Bookchin, called: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy. She served for three years as Bernie Sanders’ press secretary when he was first elected to Congress.