Dexter Tiff Roberts is an award-winning journalist serving as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council's Asia Security Initiative and a Fellow at the University of Montana's Maur

John Charles Chasteen is a North Carolina writer, translator of Spanish and Portuguese, and, for twenty-five years, professor of history at UNC Chapel Hill, where he was born (on campus) in 1955. His

Gretchen Bakke holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Cultural Anthropology. She has done research on several failing nations, including the Soviet Union, the former Yugos

After graduating from Oberlin College, Jon began his career in New York with the CBS News documentary unit. Dur

Tom Mueller is a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. He was educated at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural east Texas,

Michael Hudson is a senior editor at at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. His two decades of work on mortgage and banking fraud has prompted critics to call him the reporte

Professor Domínguez (on administrative leave) is Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico in the Department of Government at Harvard University, Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead

I am the senior executive editor for global technology coverage at Bloomberg and the author of "The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New

Richard Weylman is the author of three books, two of which are international best-sellers, including his latest the CEO Reads best-seller, The Power of Why: Breaking Out in a Competitive Market

Ed Caesar has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, and Smithsonian, among many others, and has reported from a wide

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Craig Ryan is the author of acclaimed books on extreme adventure and scientific discovery in the stratosphere as well as the coproducer of the documentary film The Angry Sky. He lives in Portland, Ore

Behrooz Ghamari is Professor of History and Sociology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofIslam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran and Foucau

David Polfeldt is the Managing Director of Massive Entertainment, a world-leading video game studio and part of the Ubisoft family. At Massive, David has worked industry-defining, AAA games such as

Barry Strauss is Professor of History and Classics, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, and a military and naval historian and consultant. As the Series

Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is also Eurasia Research Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is author

Alvin Roth, PhD, is the McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and is one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of market design and game theory. He was the co-recipient

Gina Keating is the author of Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs (Portfolio, 2012) and a freelance writer. She covered media, law and go