Barrett Brown has written for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, al-Jazeera, New York Press, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, American Atheist, McSweeney's, National Lampoon, D Magazine, and dozens of other outlets and has served as an adviser to two U.S. congressional candidates as well as the spokesman for GAMPAC/Enlighten The Vote, a secularist political action committee. In 2009, he founded Project PM, a distributed think-tank