is Professor of History and director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center, City University of New York….

, who writes on national politics for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics….

, a former assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University….

is the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution….

is the author, most recently, of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World….

is the ombudsman for PBS and the former ombudsman for The Washington Post….

, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, was chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1993 to 2004….

is the associate executive director at the Center for Genetics and Society….

is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation….

, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, is a correspondent for The Atlantic and editor-at-large at talkingpointsmemo.com….