James Thompson James Thompson

James Thompson was the longest serving Governor of Illinois, holding office from 1977-1991. He currently serves as the Senior Chairman of Chicago-based law firm Winston & Strawn. 

Feb 11, 2014

Giovanni Pascoli Giovanni Pascoli

Feb 11, 2014

Tara Jeffries Tara Jeffries

Tara Jeffries writes for The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Feb 10, 2014

Austin Ryan Heyroth Austin Ryan Heyroth

Austin Heyroth, Vice President of the Columbia University Young Democrats, is a junior in Columbia College Majoring in Political Science and minoring in Economics.

Feb 7, 2014

Maura Roosevelt Maura Roosevelt

Maura Roosevelt is a language lecturer at New York University, where she teaches essay writing.

Feb 7, 2014

Robert Galbraith Robert Galbraith

Feb 5, 2014

Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss

Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss are independent, investigative reporters and authors based in Cape May, New Jersey, and New York City, and the bloggers behind The Christie Watch. Bob Dreyfuss, born and raised in New Jersey, is a contributing editor at The Nation, and he has written for a wide range of magazines on politics and policy for nearly 25 years, including Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The American Prospect and The New Republic. He’s covered issues such as the privatization of Medicare, gun control, gay rights, money in politics, the NAACP, and a profile of Grover Norquist, along with a wide range of intelligence and foreign policy topics. He is the author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam. Barbara Dreyfuss has written for The American Prospect, Mother Jones, The Veteran and Washington Monthly over the past decade, covering the politics of healthcare, Agent Orange, PTSD and Social Security privatization. She has worked with CBS’s 60 Minutes on stories including industry lobbying behind George W. Bush’s Medicare drug benefit and the gambling industry. Before that, she spent 20 years on Wall Street as a healthcare policy analyst at Prudential Securities, and she is the author of Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street’s Largest Hedge Fund Disaster.

Feb 3, 2014

Diana Rosen Diana Rosen

Diana Rosen is an undergraduate staff columnist for the Yale Daily News.

Feb 3, 2014

Pardiss Kebriaei Pardiss Kebriaei

As senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Kebriaei challenges government abuses in the national security realm, including “targeted killings” and violations at Guantánamo and in the federal system. She has represented men detained at Guantánamo since 2007, and represents Fahad Hashmi.

Jan 30, 2014

Valentyn Ogirenko Valentyn Ogirenko

Jan 29, 2014