is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. A former chief White House speechwriter for Bill Clinton, he is the author, most recently, of A Return to Common Sense: Seven Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy….

is a journalist and the author of Kyoto2….

is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University….

is the president of The Connect U.S. Fund, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida, co-author of The Prosperity Agenda, and a former ambassador to the UN….

is a columnist for the London Observer. His latest book, What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way, is out in paperback….

is Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He recently won the United States Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which concerned the human rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees….

teaches Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009), and is currently co-editing a collection of writings…

is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress….

are Ph.D. candidates in political science at the University of California, Berkeley and research fellows at the New Era Foreign Policy Center….

is co-editor of Dissent and professor (emeritus) of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton….