is John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, co-authored by Jacob S. Hacker, is Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class….

is a fellow at the Center for American Progress….

is the associate editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas….

is assistant professor of marketing at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. She wrote this article in collaboration with Charles A. Lamberton, J.D….

has written biographies of Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001. He is Julius Silver University Professor at New York University….

is a staff writer at The Washington Post, a columnist for Newsweek, and a contributor at MSNBC….

is associate professor of history at Cornell University’s ILR School, and the author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class and Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. A version of this essay…

is a senior editor at The New Republic….

is president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He was director of the Peace Corps in the Clinton Administration….

is the Lloyd M. Bensten Chair in Law and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin….