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Ronald Brownstein

Author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Frank Bruni

Former New York Times Restaurant Critic and Bestselling Author of Born Round: A Story of Family, Food, and a Ferocious Appetite

Sarah Chayes

Author of The Punishment of Virtue, Former NPR Reporter, and Founder of Arghand

Dudley Clendinen

Journalist and Author of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America

Jared Cohen

Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Journalist, and Author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens

Ana Marie Cox

Original Voice of the Political Blog Wonkette and Time Magazine Columnist

Jan Crawford

Chief Legal Correspondent for CBS News and New York Times Bestselling Author of Supreme Conflict

Peter Elkind

Fortune Magazine Editor and Co-author of the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo

Jane Ganahl

Author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife

Elizabeth Gilbert

One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and Author of The New York Times Bestsellers Committed and Eat, Pray, Love

Michelle Goldberg

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Paul Greenberg

Journalist and Author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Shane Harris

Investigative Journalist and Author of The Watchers

Margaret Heffernan

Five-time CEO and Fast Company columnist

Joshua Kendall

Award-winning Journalist and Author of The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

Lauren Kessler

Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence

David Lida

Journalist and author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century

Steve Lopez

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Roger Lowenstein

Financial journalist and bestselling author of The End of Wall Street

Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent

Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair contributing editor and co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Ahmed Rashid

Journalist and author of Descent into Chaos: U.S. Policy and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post journalist and bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble

Ariel Sabar

Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past

Julie Salamon

Award-winning journalist, author, and critic

Ellen Ruppel Shell

Journalist and author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Rebecca Solnit

Award-winning Journalist and Author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture