Eric Ehrmann

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Eric Wayne Ehrmann ( ; born August 13, 1946) is an American author who follows sports, politics and weapon of mass destruction issues in Latin America. Ehrmann's commentary on Latin American affairs has been published by The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, National Review, The New York Times The Buenos Aires Herald, The Journal of Commerce, USA Today, The Toronto Star, Huff Post, World Post, and Algemeiner. From 1968 to 1971 Ehrmann was a feature writer for Rolling Stone, working under co-founder Jann S. Wenner. Later, his 1992 essay discussing the radical rock band MC5 and how the cultural freedom promoted by Rolling Stone helped facilitate regime change in Cold War Eastern Europe was featured in the magazine's 25th anniversary issue and the book The Best of Rolling Stone, 25 Years of Journalism on the Edge, which was published by Doubleday. From 2009 to January 2018 his contributions on global affairs, sports and politics appeared regularly on HuffPost in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. For several years, he authored the "Institutions and Competition" blog on the Russian International Affairs Council website; a think tank adjunct of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2015 he has been involved in a series of projects overseen by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) that compare human analytics with machine predictions.…

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1. date of birth: 1946-08-13 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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