is the Executive Director of the Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service and of the Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health.

is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century and The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame.

is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. He is co-author, with Daniel Schlozman, of The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics, and the author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era.

is a Harvard professor emeritus and senior adviser at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He is a former Moscow bureau chief for CBS and the author, most recently, of Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War.

is a member of the New York Daily News editorial board.

is a Senior Economist and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and co-editor of the forthcoming After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (2017).

is the author of The LaFollettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America and many other books and articles. He was formerly a professor of history at the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester. 

is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the co-author, with Brink Lindsey of The Captured Economy and, with David Dagan, Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration.

is the author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada. She serves as the executive director of Faith in Texas and as a senior consultant to the PICO National Network.

is senior fellow and director of the Strategy and Statecraft Program at the Center for a New American Security. She is the former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden.