Ming Xie is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Ming was an Assistant Professor and the Emergency Management Administration Program Director at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at West Texas A&M University from 2020...

Sanya Mansoor is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her reporting focuses on the domestic fallout of U.S. foreign policy, Israel and Palestine, South Asia, immigration, state politics and surveillance. She was most recently a reporter at TIME Magazine, where she worked for five years. Her byline has...

Pavan Acharya is a reporting fellow. Originally from Libertyville, Illinois, he's excited to be back in Texas after a summer internship reporting on housing and elections administration for The Dallas Morning News. Pavan has also interned at Midstory and Block Club Chicago. He is a senior at Northwestern University studying...

Afeef is a journalist and host of "__With Afeef Nessouli." He previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal's daily news podcast "The Journal," CNN, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," and as a legal advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. His reporting focuses on politics,...

Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen), GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard University; founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna); and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Stanger’s next book, Who Elected Big Tech?...

Rob Long is a television writer and producer and author of three books. His weekly podcast, Martini Shot, is available everywhere.

A.C. Thompson is a staff reporter with ProPublica. His stories, which often examine the criminal justice system, have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison and the prosecution of seven New Orleans police officers. In addition to working as a print...

Michael A. Spikes, PhD is a professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University.

Jessica Washington is a political reporter for The Intercept covering the intersection of politics and identity. She has words in The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Root, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Mother Jones magazine, and other notable publications.

Alec MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica. In recent years, his coverage has focused on gun violence, economic inequality and the pandemic-era schools crisis.