Consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author, libertarian columnist and host and commentator of Fox Business Network (FBN), John Stossel has received numerous honors and awards in his decade of career. His views on economics are largely supportive of the free market. He is author of Give Me a Break and Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.

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.

William Raspberry's intellect and warmly personal writing style have attracted a legion of admiring readers to his commentary on social and political issues. In 1997, Raspberry was named one of the top 50 most influential journalists in the ...

Paul Loeb has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain.

He has written five widely praised ...

Writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism, Amiri Baraka is best known as the Father of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Veteran political journalist and bestselling author, Thomas DeFrank is the Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News where he directs coverage of the nation's capital for the country's third-largest metropolitan daily newspaper. DeFrank is author of Write it When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.

Radio and television writer who became most famous as a humorist and political commentator with his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" on 60 Minutes, Rooney has been honored with numerous awards and four Emmys for his work. Rooney published a memoir My War about his war reporting.

Revolutionary civil rights activist Bobby Seale co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense in 1966. During the presentation Bobby and his wife Leslie define the pragmatic philosophical range of the sixties protest movement, which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic community organizing. Today Seale is author of Barbequing with Bobby and was also a spokesman for Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

From 1967 to 1971, Kathleen Cleaver was the communications secretary of the Black Panther Party, the first woman member of their Central Committee. Today Kathleen is a Senior Research Associate at the Yale Law School and executive producer of the International Black Panther Film Festival. Kathleen has co-edited a collection of essays entitled Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party.

Author of Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, Bruce Bartlett's influence among policymakers was recently acknowledged by International Economy magazine. Bruce is a frequent guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NBC Nightly News, Nightline, Crossfire, Moneyline, Nightly Business Report, Wall Street Week, CNN, CNBC, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and other news programs.