Author Bios

Max Richtman is president and CEO of the nonprofit National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. He is former staff director of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Victoria Shineman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Violet Glaser is a contributor to Left Voice.

Tom McBrien is a contributor to the Brennan Center for Justice.

Harsha Panduranga is counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security program. Before joining the Brennan Center, he was a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in …

Cécile Blanchet is a Berlin-based researcher in geosciences with a focus on dynamics of past climatic changes. She is presently working as a post-doctoral fellow at the GeoForschungszentrum in …

Wendi C. Thomas is an award-winning independent journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work focuses on economic and racial justice. Thomas writes for The Christian Science Monitor, The Undefeated and is a …

Bryan Adeline is the father of two teen daughters, and is a musician and a practicing Florida real estate attorney. He has a BA and MA in history, and …

Jon Greenberg is a senior correspondent with PolitiFact. He was part of the PolitiFact team during the 2012 presidential election and was one of the fact-checkers who launched PunditFact …

Reid Champlin is a reporting intern at the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP). Reid is an investigative journalist covering campaign finance and foreign affairs. He's a rising junior at …