is the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and author of On the Side of Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship….

are, respectively, an award-winning TV journalist, author of multiple books, and president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy; and the former president of the Stride Rite Corporation and a current board member of the Fund for the Republic….

are, respectively, the executive director of the Fund for the Republic and the former executive director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund; and the president of the Foundation for Civic Leadership….

is a former health insurance executive, an analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, president of Wendell Potter Consulting, and the author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and…

is the founder of the blog Capital Gains and Games. Mary Morgan, an associate at Qorvis Communications, helped with the research for this article….

are, respectively, the Stanely B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and the author, with Paul Pierson, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; and a student at Yale…

are, respectively, a member and associate in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office, where Potter leads the Political Law Practice….

represented Wisconsin in the United States Senate from 1993 to 2011, and was the co-author of the campaign-finance reform law known as McCain-Feingold. He is also the founder of Progressives United….

served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013….

is the general manager of DC Water. He was previously the director of the District Department of the Environment, and has worked for the U.S. EPA, for environmental nonprofits, and in the private sector. He teaches environmental law and policy…