is a Washington writer who retired after 40 years as a correspondent and Washington columnist for The Boston Globe….

is the executive director of the Democracy Coalition Project and director of the Club of Madrid's Washington office….

is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South….

are, respectively, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University….

is a lecturer on history and assistant director of undergraduate studies in history at Harvard University….

has written extensively about insurgency and the future of war since the mid-1980's. He retired from the Marine Corps as a colonel in 2005 and is currently a doctoral student in history at Oxford….

served in the State Department's human rights bureau in the Clinton Administration and is now a fellow at the Van Leer Institute and at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute….

is the Washington bureau chief for Salon.com and is covering his eighth presidential campaign….

is the president of the Progressive Policy Institute….

is the Ezra Zilkha Chair and senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. From 1993 to 1995 he served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic…