- Eleanor Clift
ELEANOR CLIFT Washington power struggles can make for a confusing and opaque world. Eleanor Clift , a contributing editor at Newsweek and lucid writer on national politics and the influence of women in politics, penetrates this murky world to offer startling insights. As somebody who knows this world inside out, Eleanor Clift is often assigned to follow key stories is often assigned to follow key stories, such as presidential nomination and election campaigns. - Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998. - Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas is an American journalist and author. A graduate of Phillips Andover, Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, since 1991 he has been the Assistant Managing Editor at "Newsweek". From 1986-1996, he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998 for NEWSWEEK’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist. Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967.... - Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen hasn't been a New York Times columnist for more than a decade, but she'd still fit in quite well on her old paper's op-ed page. In her opinion piece for the October 31 Newsweek, Quindlen takes up the inclination to psychoanalyze President Bush from one current Times columnist, Maureen Dowd , and the Iraq-is-Vietnam argument from another, Frank Rich. - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - Gloria Anne Borger
Gloria Anne Borger (born 1952) [ 1 ] is a political pundit, American journalist , and columnist . Borger is presently a contributing editor and columnist for US News and World Report magazine and a Senior Political Analyst at CNN. She was formerly the National Political Correspondent for CBS News . Since joining CNN in 2007, she has frequently been seen covering the 2008 campaign trail. - Gene Lyons
Gene Lyons is a political columnist and co-author with Joe Conason of "The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton", a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting film. The book outlines a purported right wing campaign waged against President Clinton leading eventually to the president's impeachment and exoneration. - Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. - Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (19 October 1918 - 29 April1994) was an American political theorist, historian, social critic, and man of letters, best known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, "The Conservative Mind", gave shape to the amorphous post-World War II conservative movement. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. - Christopher Ruddy
Christopher Ruddy is a conservative American journalist. He is known for his controversial writings about the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Ruddy is currently the CEO of NewsMax Media, an Internet media company he founded. - Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken (b. 4 February 1946) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. At age 20, he dedicated his life to changing the relationship between business and the environment, and between human and living systems in order to create a more just and sustainable world. His work includes starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce upon the environment, … - Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", … - Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek". - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - C. Fred Bergsten
C. Fred Bergsten, (born 1941), is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been president of the Peterson Institute, formerly the "Institute for International Economics", since its foundation in 1981. Bergsten received his BA degree from Central Methodist University and MA, MALD, and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. - Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (sometimes known as Omar Sheikh, "Sheikh Omar", "Sheik Syed", or by the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad") (b. December 23 1973) is a British-born militant of Pakistani descent with alleged links to various Islamic-based organisations, including Jaish-e-Mohammed, Al-Qaeda, and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He was arrested and served time in prison for the 1994 abduction of several British nationals in India, … - Shirley Povich
Shirley Lewis Povich (July 15, 1905 - June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. His parents were Jewish migrants from Lithuania. Having grown up in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, far from a major league team, the first game he ever saw was a game for which he wrote the game story. In 1975, he was recipient of the Baseball Writers Association of America's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame honor for sportswriters. - Susan Ford
Susan Elizabeth Ford Vance Bales (born July 6,1957, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author, photojournalist, and the chairman of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse. Ford Bales is the youngest child and only daughter of the late U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty. She was one of three people targeted for violence by the Symbionese Liberation Army and had Secret Service protection well before her father became president. - Susie Gharib
Susie Gharib , Nightly Business Report Moderator: "The Department of Justice said this power station in California was arrested during aware of the rule of" energy crisis four years ago, only to push the price of 'electricity. The company, which owns the facility, and four of his staff is now tax CA `manipulation of energy markets. - Ron Nessen
Ronald Harold Nessen (born May 25 1934) was a press secretary for President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's pardon of former president Nixon. Prior to joining the Ford administration, Nessen served as a Washington correspondent for NBC News. On the day of Ford's succession to the presidency, August 9, 1974, … - Hendrick Hertzberg
Hendrick Hertzberg is a political writer. He has been a staff writer and editor at "The New Yorker" since 1992 and was a staff writer at the magazine from 1969 to 1977. He was President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter and is a past editor of "The New Republic". Hertzberg graduated from Suffern High School in Suffern, New York after a semester as an exchange student in Toulouse, France. - Walter Jenkins
Walter Wilson Jenkins (March 23, 1918 - November 23, 1985) was a long-time top aide to United States President Lyndon B. Johnson. A notorious sexual scandal shortly before the 1964 presidential election ended his career. A native of Jolly, Texas, Jenkins spent his childhood in Wichita Falls, Texas and attended the University of Texas. He began working for fellow Texan Johnson in 1939, when Johnson was a United States Representative. - Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, … - Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of "Newsweek". - Malcolm Muir
Malcolm Muir (1885 - 1979) was a U.S. magazine industrialist. He served as president of McGraw-Hill Publishing from 1928 to 1937. During his tenure as president, he helped create "BusinessWeek" magazine in 1929, the same year that McGraw-Hill stock was publicly traded for the first time. He also served as the editor-in-chief and president of "Newsweek" magazine between 1937 and 1959. - Ahmed Wali Karzai
Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai, younger brother of Hamid Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is the representative for southern Afghanistan in Kandahar. Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai was chosen as a representative of Kandahar province for the 2002 Loya jirga and also the 2004 Constitutional Loya Jirga. Karzai is also an elder of the Popalzai, a pashtun clan. It has been alleged that he is a prominent figure in the global drug trade, … - James Truitt
James Truitt (died 18 November 1981) was an United States journalist, born in Chicago, Illinois and raised by a prominent family in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as a Naval officer in the Pacific theatre of World War II, then returned to work for the US State Department. He married his first wife, Anne, in September 1947 in Washington, D.C. In spring of 1948 he went to work for "Life Magazine" in New York, then became their Washington correspondent. - Sanal Edamaruku
Sanal Edamaruku is the founder-president of Rationalist International and the president of the Indian Rational Association. He is the editor of the internet publication "Rationalist International". He was born in 1955 in Thodupuzha, in Kerala, India to Joseph and Solly Edamaruku. In 1977, he obtained a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Kerala. - Michael Stahlschmidt
Michael Stahlschmidt (born December 4, 1969 in Evanston, Illinois), is one of America's top sports and advertising photographers. Stahlschmidt is most famous for his work with the late 1990s Got Milk? campaign, as well as with the White House's "Smoke Free Kids" program from 1996-2000. Stahlschmidt was the sole photographer behind "Smoke Free Kids" campaign, … - Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of eight books, including his most recent work, the magnificent bestseller, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 . Called "the nation's leading Presidential historian," by Newsweek , Beschloss has made history himself, serving as the first Presidential Historian for NBC News-the first time any major network has created such a position. - Fareed Zakaria
FAREED ZAKARIA , NEWSWEEK - During the early 1970s, hard-line conservatives pilloried the CIA for being soft on the Soviets. As a result, CIA Director George Bush agreed to allow a team of outside experts to look at the intelligence and come to their own conclusions. Team B--which included Paul Wolfowitz--produced a scathing report, claiming that the Soviet threat had been badly underestimated. In retrospect, Team B's conclusions were wildly off the mark. - James M. Brady
James M. Brady, known as Jim Brady, is an American journalist and the Executive Editor of the washingtonpost.com since November 2004. Brady was born in Queens, New York City and grew up in Huntington, New York. He graduated from the American University with a degree in journalism in 1989. Brady began his career as a sportswriter at the "Post" in 1987 and has worked as a sports editor, managing news editor, and in other capacities, … - Ken Dychtwald
Ken Dychtwald , Ph.D. Gerontologist, author, CEO of Age Wave LLP - Christy Haubegger
Christy moved into the world of entertainment in 2002, hoping to expand the presence and stories of Latinos in television and motion pictures as she had done in the magazine world. She served as Associate Producer on "Chasing Papi," a romantic comedy from 20th Century Fox with a Hispanic theme/cast, which was released in May 2003. - William J. Bennett
William Bennett, a self-appointed moral compass for America, has been a key right-wing player for decades. He is the founder of a string of advocacy groups that promote conservative social policies and hawkish foreign policies, including Americans For Victory over Terrorism and Empower America. Bennett first rose to prominence in the early 1980s when he was appointed to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, and then later -- in 1985 -- to be Secretary of Education. - William Strauss
William Strauss , Partner William Strauss is a speaker, writer, historian, playwright, theater director, and performer, and an authority on generational change in American history. Strauss is a founding partner of the consulting firm LifeCourse Associates.
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