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….

is the Carpenter Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire….

is founder of KB Home, SunAmerica, and The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which is co-funding a national campaign, Strong American Schools, to elevate the issue of education in the 2008 presidential election….

are, respectively, a professor at Hofstra University School of Law and a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice; and a lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Law and former director of the Liberty and National Security…

are co-authors of The True Patriot and The Gardens of Democracy and founders of The True Patriot Network. Liu served as a speechwriter and deputy domestic policy advisor to President Bill Clinton. He is an author and educator based in…

is a contributing editor to Democracy: A Journal of Ideas….

, vice president of policy and programs at the Century Foundation, is the author of The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing….