is the president of the Center for a New American Security. A retired Army officer, he fought in operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom and wrote Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam….

are, respectively, the director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the Brookings Institution, where Sawhill also co-directs the Center on Children and Families, and the vice president of policy and programs at the Century Foundation and the author…

are, respectively, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution who served as an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration, and a research assistant at the Brookings Institution….

are, respectively, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin….

is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Metropolitan Economy Initiative….

is a professor at Hofstra Law School and a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is the co-author, with Michael Oreskes, of The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again….

is managing editor of The Democratic Strategist and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute….

is associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, which will put supporting documents and more details about this article's suggestions on its website, www.brandeis.edu/investigate….

is the chair of Democracy's Editorial Committee, a Washington Post columnist, a Georgetown University professor, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is writing a book on contemporary conservatism….

is the director of the Progressive Economy project at the GlobalWorks Foundation. He was previously the Trade and Global Markets director at the Democratic Leadership Council….