Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of New York Times bestseller ‘Salt Sugar Fat’ Michael Moss will chat with Prime members in The Hive (sub req) Monday, July 6 at 2 PM Eastern. Moss is an expert on the food industry, having worked as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He focuses on the industry in the context of health, safety, nutrition, politics, and corporate interests. ‘Salt Sugar Fat‘ won the 2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Writing & Literature, and Michael Pollan called it “a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry.”

Michael will be answering questions about his book, his reporting, and the politics and economics of what we eat. Please drop your questions here at or before 2 PM on Monday July 6!

Best selling author of “Ashley’s War” Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is in The Hive (sub req) chatting with Prime members. Stop by between no and 4 PM EST.

Gayle Lemmon, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a New York Times bestselling author, will be chatting in The Hive (sub req) at 3 PM EST Tuesday, June 23rd. She has written two books about women in the Middle East. Her most recent, Ashley’s War, tells the story of female soldiers who ran special ops missions in Afghanistan.

Gayle will be answering questions about Middle East policy and national security, as well as her books, in a live chat with Prime subscribers. Drop questions here at or before 3 PM EST on Tuesday 6/23!

Guy Lawson, New York Times bestselling author and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, will be in The Hive chatting with Prime members at 3 PM Eastern (sub req). His work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, and Harper’s. His new book, Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History, was just released on June 9.

Join him for a live chat to talk about his book (which we’ve excerpted here), our failed war on drugs and more. Drop questions here at or before 3 PM EST.

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Elizabeth Green, CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a news site devoted to educational change, will chat with Prime members today in The Hive (sub req).

Green has years of experience in education reporting, having written for The New York Sun, New York Times Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Last year, she published Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone). She will be answering questions about her book, the Common Core, teacher evaluations, and the opt-out movement.

Drop your questions here before or join us at 2:30 PM Eastern.

Elizabeth Green is the CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a news site devoted to educational change. Elizabeth has years of experience in education reporting, having written for The New York Sun, New York Times Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Last year, she published Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone). Elizabeth will be answering questions about her book, the Common Core, teacher evaluations, and the opt-out movement. Drop your questions here (sub req) before or at 2:30 PM EST on Thursday 5/28.

International LGBT rights expert Jessica Stern will be answering questions (sub req) from Prime members in The Hive at 2 PM Eastern.

Chat with Jessica Stern (sub req), executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Thursday, May 21st at 2 PM Eastern in The Hive. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is an organization that specializes in gender, sexuality and human rights globally. A champion of social and economic justice, Stern has previously worked at Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, among other organizations. She currently serves on the board of the International Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT Rights and teaches at Columbia University.

Jessica is looking forward to talking to TPM readers about gay and lesbian issues, as well as the impending Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. Drop your questions at or before 2 PM on Thursday May 21st!

TPM’s Catherine Thompson will visit the Hive (sub req) to talk about her recent coverage of the BridgeGate scandal and the conspiracy theories swirling around “Jade Helm 15,” a U.S. military exercise that Texas right-wingers fear is cover for the implementation of martial law. Catherine will answer questions about her recent reporting and what it’s like to cover domestic politics from TPM’s New York office. She’ll also offer her take on a wide array of current events.

Get your questions in now and then join us Wednesday in The Hive.