Our political author speakers dissect today’s big stories. These journalists, correspondents, historians, and politicians thoughtfully explore present-day issues and what’s to come on the world's stage.
Richard A. Clarke America’s first czar of cybersecurity and counter-terrorism, and author of The Fifth Domain.
Sarah McBride Delaware State Senator, LGBTQ activist, and National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign
Robert Baer Portrayed by George Clooney in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana, expert on American intelligence and the War on Terror
Francisco Cantú Author of the bestselling memoir The Line Becomes a River and former US Border Patrol Agent
Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer
Steve Coll Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, New Yorker staff writer, and author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S
June Eric-Udorie Feminist activist, Editor of Can We All Be Feminists? and DEI Programme Manager for Flexa
Franklin Foer National correspondent for The Atlantic, New America Foundation fellow, and former editor of The New Republic
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi National Book Award-winning historian and New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist