served in senior positions in the Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council staff in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton Administrations. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles including The U.S. Constitution and the Power to Go to War.

is the CEO of the Quincy Institute.

is International Crisis Group’s chief of policy. During the Obama Administration, he served as special assistant to the President and senior director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council.

, PhD, is an energy consultant and researcher with decades of energy policy experience with environmental organizations, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the University of Colorado system.

is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the author of Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn’t Work Without a Strong Middle Class.

is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.

is Regents Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on democratic erosion, political polarization, elections, and Latin American politics. Her current research focuses on the causes, consequences, and solutions to pernicious polarization and its negative consequences for democracy, and her […]

is an assistant professor of law at Northern Illinois University.

is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

is a Substitute Lecturer of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. He studies electoral systems and American political institutions.