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Paula Broadwell

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Ronald Brownstein

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

Frank Bruni

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...

Sarah Chayes

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Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life

Dante Chinni

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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 Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars...

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

Stephen Dau

Author of The Book of Jonas

John Dean

Legal Expert and Author of the New York Times-Bestselling Conservatives Without Conscience

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

Ronald Florence

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Michelle Goldberg

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Blaine Harden

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Shane Harris

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Ed Husain

Author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left

Akash Kapur

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Alan Kelly

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Mark Krikorian

Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies

Greg Mortenson

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Eli Pariser

Board President of MoveOn.org, Cofounder of Upworthy, and Author of The Filter Bubble: What the...

John Perkins

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Ahmed Rashid

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Thomas E. Ricks

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Nick Rosen

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Carne Ross

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Elif Shafak

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P.W. Singer

Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution

Laurence C. Smith, PhD

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Nicholas Wapshott

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Marie C. Wilson

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Benjamin Wittes

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