Michael Woldemariam is a professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Nicole Wong is the former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, focused on internet, privacy, and innovation policy. Prior to her time in government, Nicole was Google’s Vice ...

Luke Hartig is a fellow in New America's International Security Program and executive editor at Just Security.

Dave Philipps is a national correspondent for The New York Times covering the military. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, most recently in 2022.

Barton Gellman is a staff writer at The Atlantic, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and Lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Caroline Rose is the Director of the Strategic Blind Spots Portfolio at the New Lines Institute, where she leads and produces research on the intersection of defense, security, illicit trades, and geopol...

Mark S. Zaid is an attorney with a practice focused on national security law, freedom of speech constitutional claims, and government accountability.

Gerald Posner is a bestselling author who wrote the Pulitzer finalist “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.”

David Greene is a senior staff attorney and the civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Vladislav Zubok is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics and author of “Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union.”

Noah Shachtman is the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone. He formerly served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.

Nathalie Jaarsma was the Netherlands Ambassador at-Large for Security Policy and Cyber from 2020-2023.

Emily Bass is a writer, activist, artist and historian who has has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa.

Chris Meserole is the director of the Brookings Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Valerie Wirtschafter is a senior data analyst in the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

Ambassador William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and was executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum. He served as ambassador to Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the U.S....

Tim Hwang is Substack’s general counsel and the author of the book “Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet.”

Luke Broadwater is a congressional reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times.

Susan Dominus has worked for The New York Times since 2007, first as a Metro columnist and then as staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. In 2018, she was part of a team that reported on workplace...