Politics

Karen Abbott (the “pioneer of sizzle history,” according to USA Today) is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, American Rose, and Liar,...

Ken Adelman served as the U.S. Arms Control Director for President Ronald Reagan and accompanied him on three superpower summits with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,...

Kate Andersen Brower has covered the White House for Bloomberg News and Businessweek. As part of the White House press corps, Brower traveled across the United States...

Michael Bar-Zohar is a writer, public speaker, and former lawmaker. Author of many novels and books of non-fiction, he was a Member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament,...

Yousef Bashir is a Palestinian-American activist, speaker, and author of the memoir, The Words of My Father . In this moving, candid, and transformative memoir,...

Scott Bittle leads public issue analysis at Public Agenda, including both its highly regarded opinion research reports and PublicAgenda.org, which has been twice nominated...

Steve Breen won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1998 and 2009. His syndicated editorial cartoons appears nationwide and in about 300 papers around the...

Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in the Los Angeles County foster care system and went on to earn a scholarship to Wesleyan, become a Fulbright Scholar, and graduate from...

Dr. Douglas Brinkley has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “America’s new past master,” and the late Stephen E. Ambrose called him “the best of the new generation...

Jonathan Cohn is a veteran journalist who specializes in politics and domestic policy. His primary focus, health care, is the subject of Sick: The Untold Story of America's...

During her 25-year career of producing television, Lorie Conway has been the recipient of many national awards. Her most recent film, Forgotten Ellis Island (narrated...

Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program airing on CNN/U.S. weeknights. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served...

Kenneth C. Davis is the teacher you wish you had in school! The author of numerous books for adults and children, Davis is a sought-after media guest who has appeared...

Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life....

Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He serves as the Director of the University of Oxford Centre...

Lucinda Franks, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, is a reporter and author whose career has spanned over three decades. She has covered...

Conservative legal scholar Adam Freedman is one of America's leading commentators on the Constitution and legal affairs. Freedman is the author of The Naked Constitution:...

"James Geary spoke at our TEDGlobal 2009 conference in Oxford, and then again at a smaller TEDSalon in London in April 2010, and both times he captivated the audience...