Contributors

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	Steven Aftergood E-mail saftergood@fas.org Steven Aftergood directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, where he writes the Secrecy News blog.

	Paul Alexander E-mail journal212@aol.com Paul Alexander is the author of Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove.

	Graham Allison E-mail graham_allison@harvard.edu Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His latest book is Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

	Nancy Altman E-mail njalt@aol.com Nancy Altman is author of The Battle for Social Security and co-director of Social Security Works.

	J.W. Anderson E-mail janderson256@aol.com J.W. Anderson is a former Washington Post editorial writer.

	Ivan Arreguín-Toft Ivan Arreguín-Toft is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

	Peter Ashton E-mail PKAshton@aol.com Peter K. Ashton is the president of Innovation & Information Consultants, Inc., an economic and financial consulting firm which specializes in the analysis of the petroleum industry.

	William Astore E-mail wjastore@gmail.com William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), taught for six years at the U.S. Air Force Academy and currently teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com.

	Iason Athanasiadis E-mail iason_athanasiadis@harvard.edu Iason Athanasiadis was a 2008 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

	Iman Azzi E-mail azzi.iman@gmail.com Iman Azzi, a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, is an intern at the Daily Star in Beirut.

	Russ Baker E-mail russ@russbaker.com Russ Baker is a longtime, award-winning investigative reporter and essayist. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Columbia Journalism Review, and the New York Times.

	Shaul Bakhash E-mail sbakhash@gmu.edu Shaul Bakhash, Clarence Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University, is a specialist on the history of modern Iran. He was a journalist in Iran for many years.

	Henry Banta E-mail henrybanta@aol.com Henry M. Banta is a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Lobel, Novins & Lamont.

	Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele E-mail info@barlettandsteele.com Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, the longest-running investigative team in American journalism and twice winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Magazine Award, are contributing editors for Vanity Fair.

	Judith Bell E-mail jbell@policylink.org Judith Bell is president of the advocacy group PolicyLink.

	Matt Bennett E-mail mattbennett@newmillenniumresearch.org Matt Bennett is executive director of the New Millennium Research Council (NMRC).

	Joel Berg E-mail jberg@nyccah.org Joel Berg is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of hunger, food security and national and community service. He is the author a book, 'All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?,' in November 2008.

	Alan Berlow Alan Berlow is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about criminal justice issues. He may be reached via www.niemanwatchdog.org.

	Jake Bernstein E-mail Jake@JakeBernstein.net Jake Bernstein is executive editor of the Texas Observer and co-author, with Lou Dubose, of "Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency."

	Frida Berrigan E-mail berrigan@newamerica.net Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation.

	Randall Bezanson E-mail randy-bezanson@uiowa.edu Professor Bezanson teaches Constitutional Law, The First Amendment, and Seminars on Freedom of the Press, the Religion Guarantees, and Law and Technology at the University of Iowa Law School.

	Linda Bilmes E-mail linda_bilmes@harvard.edu Linda Bilmes teaches public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

	Bruce Blair E-mail bblair@CDI.ORG Bruce Blair is president of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC. The Center does in-depth research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of international security.

	Patricia Block E-mail pblock@blockconsulting.net Patricia Block is a marketing, communications and PR consultant, freelance writer and former leader of a support group for survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI). She is currently writing a book about a woman who rebuilds her damaged brain and shattered self after suffering a near-fatal accident and brain injury.

Stephen Bloom E-mail stephen-g-bloom@uiowa.edu Stephen G. Bloom, a journalism teacher at the University of Iowa, is the author of "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America," and "Inside the Writer's Mind: Writing Narrative Journalism." He is also co-creator of two oral history projects: The Iowa Journalists Oral History Project, the world’s first video-streaming archive of journalists; and The Oxford Project, which spans two decades in the lives of residents of a rural Iowa town.

	Leo Bogart Leo Bogart died in October 2004 at the age of 84. He was a leading American sociologist and served as president of the American Association of Public Opinion Research and also the World Association of Public Opinion Research. He wrote about a dozen books, including three while in his eighties.

	John Branston E-mail jbranston@bellsouth.net John Branston is a senior editor for The Memphis Flyer.

	Susan Brewer E-mail sbrewer@uwsp.edu Susan A. Brewer is an author and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

	John Britton E-mail jbritton@mmc.edu John H. Britton, a former reporter and managing editor of Jet, is assistant to the president for special projects at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.

	J. Larry Brown E-mail jlbrown@brandeis.edu Dr. Brown directs the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University.

	Michael Bugeja E-mail bugeja@iastate.edu Michael Bugeja is director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University. His latest book, "Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age" (Oxford, 2005), recently won the Clifford G. Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics.

	Ethan Burger E-mail ethansb@american.edu Ethan S. Burger is a Scholar-in-Residence at American University’s School of International Service (SIS) and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law (WCL).

	John Burke E-mail jburke@wan.asso.fr John Burke is editor of the Editors Weblog, a trade publication for the global newspaper industry published by the World Editors Forum, an organization within the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers.

	Daniel Byman E-mail dlb32@georgetown.edu Daniel Byman is the Director of the Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies as well as an Associate Professor in the Edward A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

	Tracy Campbell E-mail tracamp@uky.edu Tracy Campbell is the author of "Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition, 1742-2004" and "Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr." He is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

	Don Capps E-mail cappshd@comcast.net Don Capps is a retired Army colonel who served in Vietnam and is now working for the military in Southwest Asia.

	Kevin Carlsmith E-mail kcarlsmith@colgate.edu Kevin Carlsmith is an assistant professor of psychology at Colgate University.

	Cornelia Carrier E-mail neliacar@hotmail.com Cornelia Carrier, a 1976 Nieman fellow, is a retired journalist and active environmentalist living in Charleston, SC.

	John Carroll E-mail john_carroll@ksg.harvard.edu John S. Carroll is the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2000 to 2005.

	Andres Cavelier E-mail acavelier@gmail.com Andres Cavelier is a 2007-2008 Nieman fellow.

	Teresa Chambers E-mail tcchambers@honestchief.com Teresa C. Chambers was fired last year from her job as chief of police for the United States Park Police Force after talking to a reporter.

	Ira Chernus E-mail chernus@colorado.edu Ira Chernus, an author and commentator, is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he has taught for 30 years.

	Norman Christensen E-mail normc@duke.edu Norman L. Christensen, Jr., is a professor of ecology and founding dean at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. He has studied wildfire ecology for more than 30 years, and in 2003 testified before Congress about the Healthy Forests Restoration Act.

	Sig Christenson E-mail saddamscribe@yahoo.com In the past four years, Sig Christenson has been stationed in Iraq five times, for a total of ten months, for the San Antonio Express-News. He is co-founder and former president of Military Reporters & Editors.

	William Claiborne E-mail william.claiborne@gmail.com Bill Claiborne, now living in Australia, was a Washington Post reporter for 32 years, mostly in foreign and national news positions.

Stephen Cohen E-mail scohen@brookings.edu Stephen Cohen has been a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution since 1998. He was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of State from 1985-87, and is the author of numerous books and articles on India and South Asia, notably the recently published India: Emerging Power (Brookings, 2001), and The Idea of Pakistan (Brookings: 2004).

	Leonard Cole E-mail lcole1@ix.netcom.com Leonard A. Cole is a political scientist at Rutgers University-Newark N.J., where he teaches science and public policy. He is the author, most recently, of The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective story.

	Stan Collender E-mail scollender@qorvis.com Budget expert Stan Collender is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Qorvis Communications and the founder of the Capital Gains and Games blog.

	Alfredo Corchado E-mail ajcorchado@aol.com Alfredo Corchado, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, is Mexico Bureau Chief of The Dallas Morning News.

	Robert Cottrol E-mail bcottrol@law.gwu.edu Robert J. Cottrol is a professor of law, history, and Sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University.

	Philip Coyle E-mail martha.krebs@worldnet.att.net Philip E. Coyle III is a Senior Advisor to the President of the Center for Defense Information and an independent defense consultant. He is a recognized expert on U.S. and worldwide military research, development and testing, on operational military matters, and on national security policy and defense spending.

	Gilbert Cranberg E-mail gilcranberg@yahoo.com Gilbert Cranberg is a former editorial page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune.

	Mary Curtis E-mail mcurtis1@carolina.rr.com Mary C. Curtis, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, is a contributor to PoliticsDaily.com, TheRoot.com, NPR and Creative Loafing Charlotte. Her “Keeping It Positive” commentary airs every Wednesday on Fox News Rising Charlotte.

	Sheldon Danziger E-mail sheldond@umich.edu Sheldon H. Danziger is the Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

	Joseph Davis E-mail jdavis2@starpower.net Joseph A. Davis has been writing about the environment, energy, and natural resources for 30 years.

	Pete Davis E-mail pete@daviscap.com Pete Davis, president of Davis Capital Investment Ideas, advises Wall Street money managers on Washington policy developments that affect the financial markets. He blogs at Capital Gains and Games.

	Pedro de la Torre E-mail pdelatorre@americanprogress.org Pedro de la Torre III is senior associate, Campus Progress, at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC.

	Brad DeLong E-mail jbdelong@uclink.berkeley.edu J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, one of the most popular Weblogs dealing with politics and the economy.

	Lyle Denniston E-mail lylden@aol.com Veteran Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston is now a correspondent for SCOTUSblog.com.

	David Dill E-mail dill@cs.stanford.edu David Dill, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, is the founder of VerifiedVoting.org and the Verified Voting Foundation

	Lauren Drablier E-mail laurenmdrablier@gmail.com Lauren Drablier, based in Paris, has a masters degree in nternational affairs from Sciences Po Paris.

	Robert Dreyfuss E-mail robert@robertdreyfuss.com Robert Dreyfuss covers national security for Rolling Stone and writes frequently for The American Prospect, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Monthly. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam. His web site and blog, The Dreyfuss Report, can be found at www.RobertDreyfuss.com.

Tom Engelhardt E-mail tomeditor@aol.com Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. He also edited The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire (Verso, 2008), an alternative history of the Bush years.

	Robert Faber E-mail rgfaber@comcast.net Robert Faber has been an Arbor resident since 1954 and served two terms on Ann Arbor's City Council.

	Diane Farsetta E-mail diane@prwatch.org Diane Farsetta is Senior Researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy, and the co-author of CMD’s two VNR reports, “Fake TV News” and “Still Not the News.”

	Rashi Fein E-mail rashi_fein@hms.harvard.edu Rashi Fein is Professor of Medical Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, and co-author of The Health Care Mess; How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out, from the Harvard University Press.

	Christopher Fettweis E-mail fettweis@tulane.edu Christopher J. Fettweis is a political science professor at Tulane University and the author of Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The Four Stages to Moving Beyond Iraq.

	Morris Fiorina E-mail mfiorina@stanford.edu Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

	Louis Fisher E-mail lfisher@loc.gov Louis Fisher is a specialist in constitutional law with the Law Library of the Library of Congress and author of "In the Name of National Security" (2006), which analyzes the Reynolds case. The views expressed here are personal, not institutional.

	Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould E-mail gould.fitzgerald@verizon.net Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981.

	James Forest E-mail james.forest@usma.edu James JF Forest is Assistant Professor and Director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

	Chas Freeman E-mail freeman@mepc.org Amb. Chas. W. Freeman, Jr. is president of the Middle East Policy Council. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94 and served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

	Saul Friedman E-mail saulfriedman@comcast.net Saul Friedman, a 1963 Nieman fellow, is a former White House correspondent for Newsday and Knight Ridder newspapers and now writes a weekly column, “Gray Matters,” dealing with senior issues, for Newsday.

	Brad Friedman E-mail Brad@BradBlog.com Brad Friedman is an investigative journalist, blogger and radio host who covers issues of election integrity at BradBlog.com.

	Arnold Friedman E-mail storygems@sbcglobal.net Arnold Friedman is an award-winning writer based in Los Angeles. He specializes in criminal justice system and political reporting.

	Sam Fulwood, III E-mail sfulwood@gmail.com Sam Fulwood,III, a 1994 Nieman fellow, writes about national politics, race relations and pop culture for The Root.

	Kate Galbraith E-mail kate_galbraith@harvard.edu Kate Galbraith, a 2008 Nieman fellow, has been a correspondent for The Economist. She has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Grist.org.

	Adam Gamble E-mail agamble@oncapepublications.com Adam Gamble is publisher at On Cape Publications in Massachusetts, and co-author of "A Public Betrayed," a new book on the Japanese news media.

	Bob Garfield E-mail garfield@crain.com Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, and international lecturer. In another life as an obscure broadcast personality, he is co-host of National Public Radio’s weekly magazine program “On the Media.”

	Christopher Gelpi E-mail gelpi@duke.edu Christopher F. Gelpi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. His primary research interests are the sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution.

	Heather Gerken E-mail heather.gerken@yale.edu Heather Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she specializes in election law, constitutional law, and civil procedure.

	Lisa Getter E-mail lgetter@ucg.com Lisa Getter (Nieman Class of 1995) was a member of the Miami Herald team that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its reporting on Hurricane Andrew. She is now editorial director of UCG, a business information publisher in Rockville, Md.

	David Gewirtz E-mail david@ZATZ.com David Gewirtz is the Editor-in-Chief of ZATZ Publishing and has written more than 600 articles about technology. He is the author of four books including Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise.

	Daniel Gilbert E-mail dgilbert@bristolnews.com Daniel Gilbert is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer prize for public service and other journalism awards.

	Todd Gitlin E-mail toddgitlin@toddgitlin.net Todd Gitlin is an author, essayist, and professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.

	Alexander Goldman E-mail agoldmanster@gmail.com Alex Goldman is Senior Editor at InternetNews.com. He has been a technology jurnalist for the past nine years.

	Joseph Goldstein E-mail jgoldstein@mayerbrown.com Joseph Goldstein is a partner at the Mayer Brown law firm in Washington, DC.

	Merrill Goozner E-mail mgoozner@cspinet.org Merrill Goozner is director of the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

	Neil Gordon E-mail ngordon@pogo.org Neil Gordon is an investigator at the Project On Government Oversight, an investigative nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.

	Peter Gosselin E-mail peter.gosselin@latimes.com Peter G. Gosselin has been national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times since 1999. His latest series was The New Deal: If America is Richer, Why Are Its Families So Much Less Secure?

Pamela Gould E-mail pgould@freelancestar.com Pamela Gould has spent the last eight years as a general assignment reporter at the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star. She was previously an editor at the Potomac (Va.) News, where she led an award-winning investigation into the Virginia crime lab error that resulted in the arrest of the wrong man and temporarily derailed the hunt for the killer of Spotsylvania County resident Sofia Silva.

	E.J. Graff E-mail ejgraff@brandeis.edu E.J. Graff is a Senior Researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.

	Donald Green E-mail donald.green@yale.edu Donald A. Green is professor of political science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

Karen Greenberg E-mail greenber@juris.law.nyu.edu Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, the editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security, co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, and editor of Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press).

	Steven Greenhut E-mail sgreenhut@calwatchdog.com Steven Greenhut is Editor in Chief of Calwatchdog.com, a columnist for the Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) and North County Times (Escondido, Calif.) and author of Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries Controlling Our Lives And Bankrupting The Nation.

Ted Gup E-mail tedgup@att.net Ted Gup, a former staff writer for the Washington Post and Time magazine, is the author of Nation of Secrets: The Threat To Democracy And The American Way Of Life, (Doubleday, June 2007) and The Book of Honor: Covert Lives And Classified Deaths At The CIA, (Doubleday, 2000, Anchor Paperback 2001) and is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University.

	Leon Hadar E-mail LeonHadar@aol.com Leon T. Hadar is a research fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia.

	John Hanrahan E-mail hanrahan@niemanwatchdog.org John Hanrahan is on special assignment for Nieman Watchdog as the lead writer in the "Reporting the Collapse" series. He is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations.

	Bev Harris E-mail Bevharrismail@aol.com Bev Harris is the author of Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century.

	Judi Hasson E-mail jhasson@fcw.com Judi Hasson is the editor at large at Federal Computer Week, a weekly technology magazine covering the federal government.

	Kevin Hayden E-mail kahlil[AT]despammed[dot]com Kevin Hayden is a free-lance writer and blogger, who runs the much-cited American Street blog. His principal source of income in recent years has been from property management and maintenance. His hobby is studying U.S. history and political history.

	Lee Helfrich E-mail helfrich@lnllaw.com Lee Helfrich is a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Lobel, Novins & Lamont.

	David Himmelstein E-mail David_himmelstein@hms.harvard.edu Dr. David Himmelstein is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. He practices and teaches primary care internal medicine at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard.

	D. Jeffrey Hirschberg E-mail jeff@kaloramapartners.com D. Jeffrey Hirschberg is a partner in Kalorama Partners, a Washington, D.C., firm advising clients on corporate governance.

	Arlie Hochschild E-mail ahochsch@berkeley.edu Arlie Hochschild teaches sociology at U.C. Berkeley.

	Mary Hornig Mary V. Hornig of Springfield, Va., is active in an online Marine family group for her son's battalion.

	Donald Hudson Jr. E-mail donaldchudsonjr@yahoo.com Donald C. Hudson Jr. is a private assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.

	George Hunsinger E-mail george.hunsinger@ptsem.edu George Hunsinger teaches at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is Founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. His book Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims and People of Conscience Speak Out was published last fall.

	Alagi Jallow E-mail alagiyorro@yahoo.com Alagi Yorro Jallow, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, fled Gambia in 2005 when his newspaper was shut down and staff members arrested. He has asylum in the U.S. and is currently a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC.

	Geoffrey James Geoffrey K. James is deputy general counsel at USi, an Internet-related technology company in Annapolis, Maryland.

	Ian Johnson E-mail iandjohnson@gmail.com Ian Johnson, a 2007 Nieman fellow and Pulitzer prize winner, is a reporter/editor at The Wall Street Journal.

	David Cay Johnston E-mail davidcay@mac.com David Cay Johnston is a former tax policy reporter for the New York Times. He is author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) and Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich — and Cheat Everybody Else.

	Colin Kahl E-mail ckahl@umn.edu Colin Kahl is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

	Steven Katz E-mail katz@liontaming.com Steven L. Katz served as Counsel to former U.S. Senator John Glenn on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and has worked in the Executive Branch. He is the author of the book, Lion Taming: Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses, and other Tough Customers (Sourcebooks, 2004).

	Jeff Katz E-mail jeff@listeningtoparents.org Jeff Katz is the founder of the Listening to Parents project.

	Juliette Kayyem E-mail Juliette_Kayyem@ksg.harvard.edu Juliette N. Kayyem serves as the executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

	Orin Kerr E-mail okerr@law.gwu.edu Orin Kerr is an associate professor at the George Washington University Law School and a leading voice in the emerging field of computer crime law.

	Donald Kettl E-mail dkettl@sas.upenn.edu Donald F. Kettl is director of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.

	Jeffrey Kimball E-mail jpkimball@muohio.edu Jeffrey Kimball is professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Ohio.

	Ryan King Ryan S. King is a policy analyst with The Sentencing Project in Washington, DC. His research specialization is the American correctional system.

	Eric Kingson E-mail erkingso@syr.edu Eric Kingson is a professor of social work at Syracuse University and co-director of Social Security Works.

Stephen Kinzer E-mail s-kinzer@northwestern.edu Stephen Kinzer, a longtime New York Times foreign correspondent, teaches journalism and political science at Northwestern University. He is currently taking part in The Folly of Attacking Iran Tour, in which experts are traveling across the country to present options for a more rational foreign policy towards Iran. His latest book, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments.

	Jane Kirtley E-mail kirtl001@umn.edu Jane E. Kirtley is a professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She has been a columnist for American Journalism Review and was executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for 14 years.

	Steven Kleinman E-mail compass2100@mac.com Steven Kleinman is a military intelligence officer with twenty-five years of operational and leadership experience in human intelligence and special operations. He served as an interrogator in three major military campaigns in addition to teaching advanced interrogation and resistance to interrogation courses.

	Tom Kloza Tom Kloza has been writing about downstream oil markets since 1975. He was among the founders of Oil Price Information Service some 25 years ago.

	Andrew Kreig E-mail andrew.kreig@gmail.com Andrew Kreig is executive director of the Justice Integrity Project, and also a free-lance investigative reporter, attorney and radio host based in Washington, DC.

	Amie Kreppel E-mail kreppel@ces.ufl.edu Amie Kreppel is the Director of the University of Florida’s Center for European Studies and European Union Studies Program.

	Bruce Kushnick E-mail bruce@newnetworks.com Bruce Kushnick has been a telecom analyst for 28 years, and is currently the chairman of Teletruth, an independent customer advocacy group focusing on broadband and telecom issues, as well as executive director of New Networks Institute, a market research firm.

	George Lardner Jr. E-mail lardnerg@yahoo.com George Lardner Jr. was a reporter for more than 40 years at the Washington Post. He is now an associate at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.

	Larry Lebowitz E-mail llebowitz@miamiherald.com Larry Lebowitz covers transportation and writes the "Streetwise" column for The Miami Herald.

	Michael Lemov E-mail lemovlaw@verizon.net Michael R. Lemov is an attorney in Bethesda who specializes in federal regulatory issues. He is also president of the board of directors of the John E. Moss Foundation.

	Carolyn Lewis E-mail caroscrib@aol.com Carolyn Lewis has been a print and TV reporter and a teacher of journalism at Boston University and Columbia Journalism School.

	Charles Lewis E-mail charlesl@american.edu Charles Lewis is the founding executive director of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington and the founder and executive director for the first 15 years of the Center for Public Integrity.

	Jeffrey Lewis E-mail jeffrey@armscontrolwonk.com Jeffrey Lewis is executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

	David Lewis E-mail david.lewis@vanderbilt.edu David E. Lewis is Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and author of The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance.

	Anthony Lewis E-mail tlewis@galaxy.net Anthony Lewis, an authority on the First Amendment, is the former New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer prize winner.

	Eric Lindblom E-mail elindblom@tobaccofreekids.org Eric N. Lindblom is the Director for Policy Research at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington, DC.

	Galit Lipa E-mail glipa@law.stanford.edu Galit Lipa is a supervising attorney at the Mills Criminal Defense Clinic of Stanford Law School, an organization devoted primarily to representing individuals facing life imprisonment under California’s Three Strikes Law.

	Marc Lipsitch E-mail mlipsitc@hsph.harvard.edu Marc Lipsitch is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

	Martin Lobel E-mail Lobel@LNLlaw.com Martin Lobel is a partner in Lobel, Novins & Lamont, a Washington, DC, law firm, and chairman of the board of Tax Analysts (www.tax.org), a source for journalists.

	Jack Lohman E-mail jlohman@execpc.com Jack Lohman, a free-lance writer, is a retired business owner in Wisconsin with 35 years in the health care industry.

	Ralph Lopez E-mail ralphlopez2008@gmail.com Ralph Lopez is co-founder and Director of Jobs for Afghans, a citizens' peace organization. He led a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009.

	George Madaus E-mail madaus@bc.edu George Madaus is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy Emeritus at Boston College.

	Thomas Maier E-mail Thomas.Maier@newsday.com Thomas Maier, an award-winning author, has been an investigative reporter for Newsday since 1984.

	Harold Maio E-mail khmaio@earthlink.net Harold A. Maio is a retired editor and college German teacher who specializes in the ethics of Language itself.

	Phebe Marr E-mail pmarr@usip.org Phebe Marr is a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she is working on a project about the future of Iraq. She has spent over 40 years as a scholar and analyst of southwest Asia and is a leading U.S. specialist on Iraq.

	Kate Martin E-mail kamartin@gwu.edu Kate Martin is the Director of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil liberties organization in Washington, D.C.

	Douglas Massey E-mail dmassey@princeton.edu Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he is co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at the Office of Population Research.

	Bill McAllister E-mail bmcallister@cox.net Bill McAllister spent most of his journalism career at The Washington Post, where he was a reporter, editor and columnist from 1975 to 1999.

	Donovan McClure E-mail dmcclure@kamber.com Donovan McClure, a former newspaper reporter, is senior vice president of The Kamber Group, a labor-oriented communications firm in Washington, DC.

	Alfred McCoy E-mail awmccoy@wisc.edu Alfred McCoy is author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror" (Metropolitan Books, The American Empire Project, 2006) and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

	Tara McKelvey E-mail taramckelvey@earthlink.net Tara McKelvey, a senior editor at The American Prospect and a research fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security, is author of an upcoming book, Monstering: Inside America’s Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War (Carroll & Graf, June 12).

	Bill McKibben E-mail bill.mckibben@gmail.com An author, educator, environmentalist and activist, Bill McKibben is the founder of the global grassroots climate-change Web site 350.org. His latest book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet is about adjusting to a changed world.

	Dave McNeely E-mail dmcneely@austin.rr.com Dave McNeely (Nieman 1976), a veteran reporter and columnist, writes one column a week for 30 Texas newspapers. He is co-writing a book on the late Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock with Jim Henderson.

	Stephanie Mencimer E-mail smencimer@earthlink.net Stephanie Mencimer is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

Davis Merritt E-mail dmerritt@cox.net Daviz "Buzz" Merritt worked as a reporter, Washington correspondent, and editor for Knight and Knight Ridder newspapers for 42 years. For 23 of those years, he served as editor and senior editor of The Wichita Eagle, the largest daily newspaper in Kansas. Since his retirement in 1999, he has been an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Kansas and Wichita State University, a consultant on public journalism with newspapers and broadcast stations, and a writer.

	Philip Meyer E-mail pmeyer@email.unc.edu Philip Meyer, a 1966-'67 Nieman Fellow, recently retired as the holder of the Knight chair of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book is "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age."

	Lawrence Meyer E-mail lrm3016@gmail.com Lawrence Meyer worked as a reporter and editor for 36 years, 31 of them at The Washington Post. He was the lead reporter for the Post in covering the Senate Watergate hearings and the Watergate break-in trial.

	Eugene Meyer E-mail meyergene@aol.com Eugene L.Meyer is an award-winning former longtime Washington Post reporter and editor.

	Alden Meyer E-mail ameyer@ucsusa.org Alden Meyer is director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists and the director of its Washington, D.C. office.

	Greg Mitchell E-mail gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine and author of nine nonfiction books. His book on Iraq and the media, titled "So Wrong for So Long," has just been published by Union Square Press.

	Lawrence Mitchell E-mail lmitch@law.gwu.edu Lawrence E. Mitchell is an author and the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law and George Washington University.

	Rich Morales Lt. Colonel Rich Morales, a career Army officer, is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and a former White House fellow.

	Bill Moyers Bill Moyers has pursued a broad spectrum of journalism, beginning as a cub reporter for the Marshall News Messenger at the age of 16.

	John Mueller E-mail bbbb@osu.edu John Mueller is professor of political science at Ohio State University. His most recent book is "Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them". His next book, "Atomic Obsession", will be published in fall 2009.

	Rachel Nardin E-mail rnardin@comcast.net. Dr. Rachel Nardin, a neurologist, is the chair of the Massachusetts chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.

	Lawrence Norden E-mail lawrence.norden@nyu.edu Lawrence Norden is the author of the just published The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World (Academy Chicago Press), and is a counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law.

	James O'Shea E-mail jamesoshe@gmail.com James O’Shea was the editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times from 2006 to 2008 and held many high-level reporting and editing positions before that.

William Odom Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), a frequent contributor to NiemanWatchdog, died May 30, 2008, apparently of a heart attack. Odom in recent years had been an aggressive critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and was one of the first to call for removing American troops from Iraq. For many years a highly popular professor at Yale, he had been director of the National Security Agency under President Reagan from 1985 to 1988.

	Dan Olmsted E-mail DOlmsted@upi.com Dan Olmsted is a senior editor at UPI.

	Laura Olson E-mail laurao@clemson.edu Laura R. Olson is a professor of political science at Clemson University and the author of several books on religion and politics.

	Geneva Overholser E-mail overholserg@missouri.edu Geneva Overholser, a 1986 Nieman fellow, holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington, D.C., bureau.

	Devah Pager E-mail pager@princeton.edu Devah Pager is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.

	Trita Parsi E-mail tparsi@niacouncil.org Trita Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council, the largest Iranian-American organization in the U.S. He is also the author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States.

	Paul Pillar E-mail prp8@georgetown.edu Paul R. Pillar is on the faculty of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He capped a long career in the Central Intelligence Agency by serving as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005.

	Walter Pincus E-mail pincusw@washpost.com Walter Pincus reports on national security issues for The Washington Post.

	Andrea Pitzer E-mail andrea_pitzer@niemanstoryboard.org Andrea Pitzer is the founder of Nieman Storyboard and has been an editor with the Nieman Foundation's narrative program since 2007.

	Eric Pooley E-mail ericpooley@gmail.com Eric Pooley is a contributor to Time, Slate, and other magazines. His book about the politics and economics of climate change will be published by Hyperion next year.

	Paul Posner E-mail pposner@gmu.edu Paul L. Posner, Ph.D., served as the Managing Director for Federal Budget and Intergovernmental Relations Analysis at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and is Director of the Public Administration Graduate Program at George Mason University.

	Elaine Povich E-mail espovich@comcast.net Elaine S. Povich is a Washington writer with nearly two decades of experience covering Capitol Hill.

	Douglas Powell E-mail dpowell@ksu.edu Dr. Douglas Powell is an associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University. He also runs barfblog.com, a blog about food safety.

	John Prados E-mail nsarchiv@gwu.edu John Prados is a research fellow on national security affairs at the National Security Archives.

	Richard Prince E-mail rprince@maynardije.org Richard Prince writes Journal-isms, a three-times-a-week column about diversity issues in the news business that appears on the Web site of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

	Arch Puddington E-mail puddington@freedomhouse.org Arch Puddington is director of research at Freedom House and the author of the recently released biography, Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor (Wiley).

	Craig Pyes E-mail PyesOnly@ yahoo.com Craig Pyes is a private investigator and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with more than 25 years of experience investigating public corruption, human rights abuses, national security, and international crime.

	Jamin Raskin E-mail raskin@wcl.american.edu Jamin Raskin is a professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at American University’s Washington College of Law and is the author, most recently, of the Washington Post Bestseller, "Overruling Democracy."

	Susan Rasky E-mail rasky@berkeley.edu Susan Rasky is a senior lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism. Previously, she reported for the New York Times, serving as chief congressional correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau, and shared a 1990 George Polk Award for her coverage of the Federal budget battles.

	Nathaniel Raymond E-mail nraymond@phrusa.org Nathaniel Raymond is the Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights and leads PHR’s inquiry into the alleged 2001 Dasht-e-Leili massacre in northern Afghanistan.

	Neil Reisner E-mail reisnern@fiu.edu Neil Reisner is an associate professor of journalism at Florida International University.

	Annette Renner E-mail buckeye@zianet.com Annette Renner says she lives with her husband in the mountains of beautiful, southwestern New Mexico where she spends her time volunteering and making sure she doesn't miss any news on the Internet.

	Nicolas Retsinas E-mail nicolas_retsinas@harvard.edu Nicolas P. Retsinas is director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

	Thomas Ricks E-mail pentagon@washpost.com Thomas Ricks is the Pulitzer-Prize winning military correspondent for The Washington Post, and the author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.

	Ken Ringle E-mail kdeckhand@earthlink.net Ken Ringle was a political and environmental reporter for much of his 33 year career at The Washington Post.

	Kenneth Rogoff E-mail krogoff@harvard.edu Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, as well as Director of the Harvard Center for International Development.

	Katie Rolnick Katie Rolnick is a New York-based freelance writer and an editor at Dance Spirit magazine.

	Jay Rosen E-mail pressthink@journalism.nyu.edu Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and is the author of PressThink a weblog about journalism and democracy.

	Martha Rosenberg E-mail martharosenberg@sbcglobal.net Martha Rosenberg is a Chicago columnist and editorial cartoonist who frequently writes about the impact of the pharmaceutical, food and gun industries on public health.

	Marc Rotenberg E-mail rotenberg@epic.org Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C.

	Arthur Rowse E-mail aerowse@starpower.net Arthur E. (Ted) Rowse is a retired journalist (ex-Washington Post and U.S.News) and author.

	Andrew Rudalevige E-mail rudaleva@dickinson.edu Andrew Rudalevige is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and author of the new book, The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate (University of Michigan Press, 2005). The first chapter of the book can be found here.

	Michael Russell E-mail russelmh@bc.edu Michael Russell is an Associate Professor in the Lynch School of Education and the director of the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC) at Boston College.

	Josh Ruxin E-mail jnr4@columbia.edu Josh Ruxin is the founder and director of the Access Project in Rwanda, an initiative of the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. He is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda.

	Larry Sabato E-mail sabato@virginia.edu Larry J. Sabato is a professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and director of the U. Va. Center for Politics.

	Alan Sager E-mail asager@bu.edu Alan Sager is a professor of health services at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he and his colleague, Deborah Socolar, direct the Health Reform Program.

	Roy Saltman Roy G. Saltman is author of a new book, "The History and Politics of Voting Technology: In Quest of Integrity and Public Confidence," published by Palgrave Macmillan.

	Victoria Samson E-mail vsamson@swfound.org Victoria Samson is director of Washington Operations for the Secure World Foundation.

	Darren Samuelsohn E-mail dsamuelsohn@hotmail.com Darren Samuelsohn is a senior reporter for Greenwire and Environment & Energy Daily in Washington D.C.

	Sydney Schanberg E-mail sydneyschanberg@yahoo.com Sydney Schanberg is an internationally known journalist, the recipient of a Pulitzer prize and numerous other awards.

	Danny Schechter E-mail danny@mediachannel.org Danny Schechter, a 1978 Nieman fellow, is a journalist, author, television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues.

	Bill Schiller E-mail bill_schiller@harvard.edu Bill Schiller is currently a Nieman fellow; his most recent position was foreign editor of the Toronto Star.

	William Schlesinger E-mail schlesin@duke.edu William H. Schlesinger is the James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Science at Duke University.

	Frank Schneider E-mail franksch@att.net Frank L. Schneider is a retired attorney who lives in Chicago. He specialized in the preparation and trial of insurance matters for 34 years.

	Nick Schwellenbach E-mail schwellenbach@gmail.com Nick Schwellenbach is an investigator and blog editor at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), an investigative non-profit organization in Washington, DC.

	David Segal E-mail dsegal@socy.umd.edu David R. Segal is a sociology professor at the University of Maryland and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization.

	Ted Selker Ted Selker, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, is co-director of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, where he is building and testing technology for improving security and accuracy in voting.

	Brad Setser E-mail brad_setser@msn.com Brad Setser is a research associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford and a blogger.

	Sarah Sewall E-mail Sarah_Sewall@harvard.edu Sarah Sewall is the Faculty Director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She recently authored the introduction to the University of Chicago Edition of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

	Harley Shaiken E-mail hshaiken@berkeley.edu Harley Shaiken is a Professor of Education and Geography at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Latin America, labor, information technology, the organization of work, global economic integration and trade.

	Ian Shapiro E-mail ian.shapiro@yale.edu Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University and the author, most recently, of "Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror."

	Paul Shukovsky E-mail PaulShukovsky@seattlepi.com Paul Shukovsky covers federal courts and federal investigative agencies for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he has been a reporter since 1990.

	Micah Sifry E-mail msifry@publicampaign.org Micah L. Sifry is senior analyst with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization working on comprehensive campaign finance reform.

	Jonathan Simon E-mail Jonathan@ElectionDefenseAlliance.org Jonathan Simon is a co-founder of the Election Defense Alliance, a national coordinating body for citizen electoral integrity groups.

	Jonathan Simon E-mail jsimon@law.berkeley.edu Jonathan Simon is a law professor at UC Berkeley and the author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

	P.W. Singer E-mail author@pwsinger.com P.W. Singer is Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. The updated, paperback version of his book Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century(Penguin) is now available.

	Stephanie Singer E-mail sfsinger@campaignscientific.com Stephanie Frank Singer is the Chief Executive Officer of Campaign Scientific LLC, a campaign consulting firm specializing in data issues.

	Susannah Sirkin E-mail ssirkin@phrusa.org Susannah Sirkin is the Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, a position she has held since 1987. She also directs PHR’s program on human rights violations in armed conflicts.

	Wick Sloane E-mail wsloane@well.com Wick Sloane writes a column, "The Devil's Workshop," for InsideHigherEd.com.

	Tyson Slocum E-mail tslocum@citizen.org Tyson Slocum is the Research Director for Public Citizen's Energy Program.

	Haviland Smith E-mail twopond@comcast.net Haviland Smith is a retired CIA station chief, who served in Eastern and Western Europe, Lebanon and Tehran and as chief of the counter-terrorism staff.

	Frank Smyth E-mail smyth.frank@gmail.com Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist who has written about drug or arms trafficking for publications including The Texas Observer, The Nation, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. His clips are posted at www.franksmyth.com.

	J.H. Snider E-mail snider@iSolon.org J.H. Snider is the president of iSolon.org and frequently writes about media policy.

	Norman Solomon E-mail mediabeat@igc.org Norman Solomon is the author of the new book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." He is a syndicated columnist on media and politics.

	Jerome Starkey E-mail jeromestarkey@gmail.com Jerome Starkey, (jeromestarkey.com) is the Afghanistan correspondent for the Times of London. He’s also on YouTube, Flickr and Twitter.

	Judith Stein E-mail jstein@medicareadvocacy.org Judith Stein is the founder and executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., and has long focused on legal representation of the elderly.

	Joseph Stiglitz E-mail jes322@columbia.edu Joseph Stiglitz, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and chief economist at the World Bank, teaches at Columbia University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001.

	Herb Strentz E-mail herb.strentz@drake.edu Herb Strentz is an emeritus professor of journalism at Drake University in Des Moines and former executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

	Ross Swimmer Ross Swimmer served three terms as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and one term as Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs.

	Nick Taylor E-mail jnicktaylor@cs.com Nick Taylor is the author of American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work.

	Charles Tiefer E-mail ctiefer@ubalt.edu Charles Tiefer is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and former solicitor and deputy general counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.

	Susan Tifft Susan Tifft died in April 2010. She had been a teacher, author and reporter.

	Sean Tipton E-mail stipton@asrm-dc.org Sean Tipton is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR), a Washington, DC, based advocacy group dedicated to research into embryonic stem cells and regenerative medicine.

	Monica Toft E-mail monica_toft@ksg.harvard.edu Monica Duffy Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

	Michael Tuck E-mail purplesage23@yahoo.com Michael Tuck is a project manager for the History Commons.

	Jeffrey Tulis E-mail tulis@mail.utexas.edu Jeffrey K. Tulis is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where his teaching and research interests include the presidency, American political development, constitutional theory, and political philosophy.

	Ellen Tuttle E-mail ellen_tuttle@harvard.edu Ellen Tuttle is the communications officer for the Nieman Foundation.

	Steve Vladeck E-mail svladeck@law.miami.edu Steve Vladeck is an associate professor of law at the University of Miami, and and a regular contributor to PrawfsBlawg.

	David Walker E-mail ceo@pgpf.org David Walker is president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He was Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office from 1998 to 2008.

	Linda Wallace E-mail theculturalcoach@aol.com Linda S. Wallace is the author of Cultural IQ, a blog that provides practical tips for dealing with uncomfortable life situations.

	Ken Ward, Jr. E-mail kward@wvgazette.com Ken Ward, Jr., a reporter for The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette for nearly 20 years, has covered mine safety for most of that time. Read his stories on mountaintop removal here or follow him on his Coal Tattoo blog or Twitter at http://twitter.com/Kenwardjr.

	David Weaver E-mail weaver@indiana.edu David Weaver is the Roy W. Howard Research Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana University's Bloomington campus and the author of numerous articles and books.

	William Weaver E-mail wweaver@utep.edu Bill Weaver is a government professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and senior advisor to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.

	Gene Weingarten E-mail weingarten@washpost.com Gene Weingarten is a humor writer for The Washington Post. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow.

	Mark Weisbrot E-mail weisbrot@cepr.net Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

	Pete Weitzel E-mail pweitzel@cjog.net Pete Weitzel is the freedom of information coordinator for the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government.

	Gary Wells E-mail glwells@iastate.edu Gary L. Wells is Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and Director of Social Science Research at the American Judicature Society’s Institute of Forensic Science and Public Policy.

	Bruce Western E-mail western@wjh.harvard.edu Bruce Western is a Harvard professor of sociology and director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy of Kennedy School of Government.

	Anthony Wheeler E-mail wheelera@csus.edu Anthony R. Wheeler is a professor of organizational behavior at California State University, Sacramento. He has published numerous articles on organizational behavior and human resources management, and he frequently consults for organizations experiencing selection and performance assessment difficulties.

	Winslow Wheeler E-mail winslowwheeler@comcast.net Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, is the editor of the anthology "America's Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress."

	Wayne White E-mail WEWfox50@att.net Wayne White is an Adjunct Scholar at Washington’s Middle East Institute and a Policy Expert at Washington’s Middle East Policy Council. In 2005, he retired as Deputy Director of the Near East and South Asia Office in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

	James Whitman E-mail James.Whitman@yale.edu James Q. Whitman is a Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. He takes a special interest in criminal punishment, sexual harassment, hate speech, and workplace dignity.

	Larry Wilkerson Lawrence Wilkerson was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005, and served for 31 years in the U.S. Army.

	Andrew Wilper E-mail awilper@hsph.harvard.edu Andrew Wilper, MD, is an internist with Cambridge Health Alliance and a fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.

	George Wilson E-mail gcwilson1@comcast.net George C. Wilson has been a print reporter for more than a half century. He currently writes a column on defense issues for CongressDaily.

	Edward Wilson E-mail Ewilson@oeb.harvard.edu Edward O. Wilson, professor and honorary curator of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the recipient of the National Medal of Science and a number of international awards.

	Steffie Woolhandler E-mail steffie_woolhandler@hms.harvard.edu Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine Fellowship program.

	Andy Worthington E-mail andy@andyworthington.co.uk Andy Worthington is a journalist, the author of The Guantánamo Files (Pluto Press), the first book to tell the stories of all the prisoners in Guantánamo, and the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. He maintains a blog at andyworthington.co.uk.

	Aung Zaw E-mail information@irrawaddy.org Aung Zaw is the editor of Irrawaddy Magazine.

	Stephen Zunes E-mail zunes@usfca.edu Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco.