Politics

Dr. Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. The author of the internationally acclaimed books Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden...

In The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers and the Fight to Save the Earth (Hyperion), the Environmental Defense Fund's Senior VP for Strategy and Communications...

“John Quiñones has spent his career in the heart and sinew of America. Heroes Among Us makes you a promise – that courage, humanity, generosity triumph...

Andrew Roberts is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized historian, biographer, New York Times best-selling author and keynote speaker. As well as appearing regularly...

Anthony D. Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation’s premier defender of liberty and individual freedom. He took the...

Bakari Sellers made history in 2006 when, at just twenty-two years old, he defeated a twenty-six-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of...

Jessica Shattuck is the award-winning author of The Hazards of Good Breeding, Perfect Life, and the novel The Women in the Castle (William Morrow).

Claire Shipman is ABC News' Good Morning America senior national correspondent and also serves as a substitute anchor on the World News. Previously, Shipman had been...

Lee Siegel is the author of four books: Falling Upwards: Essays in the Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; Against the Machine:...

Sichan Siv was nominated by President George W. Bush in October 2001 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the 28th Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and...

Maurice E. Stucke is the Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. With 25 years experience handling a range of policy issues in...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Ron Suskind has written some of America’s most important works of nonfiction, framing national...

Purely by accident, Edward Ugel spent his late twenties and early thirties working among some of the nation’s most infamous gamblers and lottery winners. For seven...

Thrity Umrigar is the author of the national best-seller, The Space Between Us (William Morrow), which was also a #1 BookSense pick and a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Beyond...

Loung Ung is an author, lecturer, and activist who has dedicated the last 15 years of her life to promoting equality and human rights in her native land and worldwide....

Shannon Watts is a mother of five who, prior to founding Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, was a stay-at-home mom and former communications executive. The...

Kim Wehle is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches and writes on the constitutional separation of powers, administrative...

Laura Wides-Muñoz ​is the author of The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What It Means to be American (Harper). The book...