is a contributing editor at Daily Beast/Newsweek, a contributor to CNN, and author most recently of Patriots, a novel….

is a professor of political science at Stanford University….

is president of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in helping leading companies find innovative solutions to environmental challenges. Governor Whitman served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January 2001 until June 2003. She was…

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….