“You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.”

American author and contributing writer

Jeff Goodell is an American author and longtime contributing writer to Rolling Stone. He writes nonfiction and is known for work on energy and environmental issues. He has written seven nonfiction books and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. In 2020, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. His writing often focuses on the systems, politics, and consequences of energy use and environmental change.