Matt Thompson is executive editor of The Atlantic, which he joined in January 2015. Previously, he spent five years at NPR, where as director of vertical initiatives, he launched and supervised teams of broadcast and digital journalists covering race, ethnicity and culture, education, and global health and development. He also worked with member stations on editorial strat...

Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board, writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog, and hosts the “Cape Up” podcast. He is an MSNBC contributor and regular substitute anchor, and has been a guest host on New York Public Radio’s “Midday on WNYC.” Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News from 20...

Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank, where he is also the Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise. Before becoming president of AEI in 2009, Brooks was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government at Syracuse University. Prior to working in academia and public policy, he spent twelve years as...

Mona Charen is a columnist, author, and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She co-hosts the weekly podcast, “Need to Know.” Charen was Nancy Reagan’s speechwriter, then associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, and later helped craft President Reagan’s communications strategy from the White House Public Affairs office. In 1986, she...