BILL KOVACH
former New York Times Washington bureau chief

MARLIN FITZWATER
former Bush White House press secretary

RICHARD FRANK
former National Journal editor

JOHN HERBERS
former New York Times Washington reporter

MIKE MCCURRY
former Clinton White House press secretary

TOM RICKS
Washington Post Pentagon reporter

KATHERINE BOO
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter

COLBERT KING
deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post

STEVEN KELMAN
professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

ROBERT A. DAHL
Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University