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Professor Rudesill is a scholar, practitioner, and teacher of legislation and national security law and policy. At Moritz, he teaches National Security Law & Process, Secrecy & Surveillance, Legislation and Regulation, and the Legislation Clinic. Other courses he has taught include Professional Responsibility (legal ethics) and Lawyers in Democracy's Defense....

Dan Friedman is a senior reporter in Mother Jones' DC bureau

Dan McCarthy is a senior editor at Canary Media. He was previously senior editor at Morning Brew, where he ran tech coverage and edited stories on a range of topics, including climatetech. Dan grew up in New Jersey, graduated from the University of Delaware, and now lives in the Hudson...

Daniel Hamburg joined DC News Now in August 2022 as a Washington, D.C. based reporter/multimedia journalist. He writes, shoots and edits his own stories. Originally from North Potomac, Md. Daniel is thrilled to be back in the DMV. Before moving home, Daniel worked at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pa., WJAC-TV in...

Daniel J. Olson is a Professor of Linguistics and Spanish at Purdue University and the director of the Purdue Bilingualism Lab. His research focuses on bilingualism from both cognitive and social perspectives. His work has appeared in many academic journals (e.g., International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Journal...

Dan Biddle is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose nationally acclaimed work at The Philadelphia Inquirer won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for outstanding coverage of legal issues. He co-authored Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, a groundbreaking biography about the courageous...

Daniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee. His most recent book is A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone...

David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief and an on-air analyst for MSNBC. He is the co-author (with Michael Isikoff) of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Showdown, Hubris...