Featured Experts

GRAHAMALLISON, Ph.D., Harvard University, Foreign Policy.

BERNARD BAILYN, Ph. D., Harvard University, origins and ideals of the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention and the American ideology.

JAMES A. BAKER, III, J.D., former White House Chief of Staff (Reagan and Bush), former Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1988), former Secretary of State (1989-1992), headed five presidential campaigns from (1976-1992)

SAMUEL H. BEER,Ph.D., Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus at Harvard University. Author of To Make a Nation.

JEFFREY BIRNBAUM, Washington Bureau Chief, Fortune Magazine. Former Wall Street Journal correspondent for Congress and the White House. Author of The Money Men, The Lobbyists, and Madhouse.

ALAN BRINKLEY, Ph.D., Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University. Published works include Voices of Protest (Knopf, 1982) which won the 1983 National Book Awards, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1997).

DAVID S. BRODER, National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Regular guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CNN’s “Inside Politics,” and PBS’s “Washington Week in Review.”

JOHN CAVANAGH, Director, Institute for Policy Studies, and former international economist with UNCTAD and World Health Organization. Co-author of Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order.

TIMOTHY CONLAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, George Mason University. Consultant, Economic Policy Institute. Consultant, U. S. Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institute. Author of From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Government Reform.

BRIAN J. COOK, Ph.D., Professor of Government and International Relations, Clark University. Author of Bureaucracy and Self Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics.

G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

RONALD M. DWORKIN,LL.B.,Professor of Law, New York University. Former Co-chairman of the Democratic Party. Consultant on human rights to the Ford Foundation. Author of Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom, A Matter of Principle, and Taking Rights Seriously.

MICKEY EDWARDS, John Quincy Adams lecturer in legislative politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 1997 winner of the annual Carballo award for excellence in teaching (award each year to the professor selected by students as the outstanding teacher in the Kennedy school).

AL FELZENBERG, Heritage Foundation. Presidency, the White House, political appointment process, government reform.

DENISE FRONING, Heritage Foundation. Free trade, foreign aid, and economic freedom issues. 

HERBERT J. GANS, Ph.D., Robert S. Lynd, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. Consultant for many civil rights, anti-poverty, and planning agencies. Author of Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy.

DAVID GERGEN, Editor-at-Large, U. S. News and World Report. Public Service Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Author of Eyewitness to Power. Analyst for ABC’s “Nightline.”

KENT GREENAWALT, LL.B., University Professor, Columbia University. Law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan, United States Supreme Court (1963-1964). Author of Private Consciences and Public Reasons.

LANI GUINIER, J.D., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, nominated for Assistant Attorney General during Clinton Administration

JOEL F. HANDLER, J. D., Maxwell Professor of Law, University of California – Los Angeles. Author of Down from Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment.

GERALD A. HANWECK, Ph.D., Professor of Finance, School of Management, George Mason University. Visiting Scholar, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Author of Bank Mergers in a Deregulated Environment: Promise and Peril. Constance Horner, Brookings Institute, Bureaucracy, government reform, presidential appointments.

CONSTANCE HORNER, Guest Scholar in Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution, former Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel for George H. W. Bush Administration, as well as former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bush Administration

SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER, LL.B., former Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit, Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, and Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, as well as the first Secretary of Education

GARY JACOBSON, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Author of The Logic of American Politics, The Politics of Congressional Elections, and The Electoral Origins of Divided Government: Competition in  U. S. House Elections.

MARVIN KALB, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University. Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Washington D. C. 30-year career as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS News and NBC News.

SAMUEL KERNELL, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Author of Principles and Practice of American Politics, The Logic of American Politics, Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership, the Politics of Divided Government, and Chief of Staff: Twenty-five Years of Managing the Presidency.

DAVID C. KING, Ph.D., John F. Kennedy School of Government. Faculty Chair, New Members of the U. S. Congress Program. Author of Turf Wars, 1998, judged “Best New Book on Legislatures” by the American Political Science Association and Why People Don’t Trust Government which won Current’s Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1998.

GARY KING, Ph.D., Professor of Government at Harvard University. Founding member of the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center.

EDWARD LAZARUS, J.D., Senior Fellow. Attorney. Former clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackman and the Ninth District Court of Appeals. Worked as assistant U. S. Attorney for the Central California District. Author of Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court.

JAMES M. LINDSAY, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution. Consultant to the United States Commission on National Securty/21st Century, Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs. National Security Council, 1996-1997.

SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University. Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Author of American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword.

ARTHUR LUPIA, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Author of The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know, Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality, and Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy.

PAULA D. MCCLAIN, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Law, Duke University

MIKE MCCURRY, Chief Executive Officer, Grassroots. Com. Principal of Public Strategies, a public affairs and strategic communications consulting firm. Press secretary to President Bill Clinton, 1995-1998. State Department spokesman, 1993-1995.

REPRESENTATIVE JIM MCDERMOTT, M.D., Congressman, 7th District (Seattle area), State of Washington.

R. SHEP MELNICK, Ph.D., Thomas P. O’Neill Professor of American Politics, Boston College. Former member of the New Hampshire legislature. Author of Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century.

GWENDOLYN MINK, Ph.D., Professor of Government, Smith College, author Welfare’s End

ROBERT MOFFIT, Heritage Foundation. Former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Assistant Secretary and senior official at the Office of Personnel Management specializing in health care policy, civil service, and law enforcement.

MICHAEL E. O’HANLON, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institute. Former Defense and Foreign Policy Budget Analysis, Natural Security Division, Congressional Budget Analyses. Author of Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo.

KAREN M. PAGET, Ph.D., Political Science, former elected official in Colorado, former Legislative staff member, and Carter Administration political appointee, author of Running as a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics.

THOMAS F. PATTERSON, Ph.D., Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University. Author of We the People (2000, McGraw-Hill), The American Democracy (1999, McGraw-Hill), Out of Order (Knopf, 1993), The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections (Putnam, 1976).

MICHAEL PERRY, LL.D., Chairman of Law, Wake Forest University, author of We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court, and Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspective.

ROBERT REICH, Ph.D.,Former Secretary of Labor (1993-1997), Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University

KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Chair, Department of Politic Science, Boston College.

ROBERT SHAPIRO, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Columbia University. Editorial board of Political Science Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly. Board of Directors of Center for Public Opinion Research, co-author of Politicians Don’t Pander.

BARBARA SINCLAIR, Ph.D., Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics, University of California – Los Angeles. Author of Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U. S. Congress, Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking: The House of Representatives in the Post-Reform Era, The Transformation of the U. S. Senate, and The Women’s Movement.

LAWRENCE SUMMERS, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration

EDWARD TURNER,former Executive Vice President, CNN

H. RICHARD UVILLER, LL.B., Arthur Levitt Professor of Law, Columbia Law School of Political Science, Boston College. Author of Tempered Zeal, Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America.

SYDNEY VERBA, Ph.D., Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor of Government, Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Library. Past president of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the James Madison Award, the Association’s highest honor for a career contribution to Political Science. Author of Voice and Equality, Injury to Insult, and The Changing American Voter.

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, Ph.D., Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University. Author of The Declining Significance of Race, and the Truly Disadvantaged.