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E.J. Dionne is a twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post, writing on national policy and politics. Before joining the Post in 1990 as a political reporter, he spent fourteen years at The New York Times, covering local, state, and national politics, also serving as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. He is currently a University Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), and most recently Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right (2008).
Dr. William Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. A former policy advisor to President Clinton and presidential candidates, Galston is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections. His current research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.
Dr. Galston is the author of eight books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics. His books include The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (2004), and Public Matters (2005). A winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert H. Humphrey Award, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. Additionally, Dr. Galston is a frequent commentator on NPR and writes a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner. A resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, he is also a Fox News contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, a reference work concerning U.S. governors and federal politicians published biennially by National Journal since 1971. He was a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report for 18 years and a member of the Editorial Board of The Washington Post for 7 years. He has traveled to all 50 states, all 435 congressional districts, and to 37 foreign countries. Barone is a graduate of Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the author of four books, including Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (1990).