E.J. Dionne Jr. employs his passions for people and politics and his keen intellect to deliver reasoned analysis that is followed by a wide circle of policy-makers nationwide - on the left, right and center. Dionne demonstrates that he "knows the present with the keen sense of a beat reporter and the past with the perspective of a scholarly historian". His 2008 book, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right was praised as "deeply personal and searchingly intelligent" by The New York Times Book Review and as "an insightful look into the intersection between religion and politics" by The Wichita Eagle.

Bob Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News. He is one of few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments. Most recently he has acted as the moderator of the 2008 presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Thomas Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker. Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of military transformation, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter on issues relating to international security and economic globalization.

Lawyer, teacher, actor, comic, economist, father, novelist, essayist, expert on finance, meet Ben Stein! An Emmy award-winning actor, comedian and game-show host, Ben is famous for his monotonous yet humorous voice in acting. Ben has worked, demonstrated and struggled for voting rights for African Americans, and was also a speech writer for Richard Nixon and for Gerald Ford.

Helen Thomas has been a fixture of the White House press corps since 1961 when, as a member of the UPI team, she began covering President John F. Kennedy. She has traveled around the world several times with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, during the course of which she covered every economic summit.

Baron Robertson of Port Ellen was the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1999-2004. He served as Defense Secretary for the UK from 1997-1999 before taking up his NATO position and becoming a life peer of Islay in Argyll and Bute. He has received numerous honors and holds the directorships of several notable companies.

A radio and television host and liberal political commentator, Alan Colmes is best known as a co-host on Fox News Channel's political debate program Hannity & Colmes. Colmes also hosts the nationally-syndicated radio show, The Alan Colmes Show, on Fox News Radio and is well respected by Democrats and Republicans.

A specialist in American foreign policy, European security, and national security affairs, Ivo H. Daalder is a special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress and is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has authored over 10 books with his most recent being the American Homeland (2002).

Author of numerous NYT bestselling books, Dinesh D'Souza is a noted conservation and defines conservatism in the American sense as "conserving the principles of the American Revolution". He is currently the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States in 1976 in Jimmy Carter's administration. On the president's behalf, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating U.S. policy, and was the first vice president to have an office in the White House.