Alan Colmes is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel. In addition to broadcasting, Colmes runs the Liberaland blog and contributes to AOL News. He wrote Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong.

Founder of the Zogby Poll, John Zogby is the hottest and most accurate pollster and analyst of America's political and cultural landscape. He correctly predicted the cliffhanger result of the 2000 presidential election for George W. Bush, in contrast to most other pollsters who had expected Bush to win easily. He correctly called the 2001 Israeli election for Ariel Sharon, the 2000 Mexican election for Vicente Fox and again in Mexico with the victory of Felipe Calderón in 2006. As author of The New York Times bestseller "The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream," Zogby continues to put his finger on the pulse of America, creating a portrait of the trends that drive our society today, and in the future. Currently, Zogby pens a weekly column for Forbes.com, a weekly report card on President Obama's performance for The Washington Times, and a monthly column for Politics magazine.

Parmy Olson is the author of "We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency," the first full account of the 2010 digital hacking assault on the websites of VISA, MasterCard and PayPal in protest for their treatment of Wikileaks. Olson is also the London Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine and Forbes.com, managing coverage of the financial crisis in Europe, interviewing billionaires Philip Green, Yuri Milner and the controversial Mohammed Al Fayed, and breaking stories such as the Facebook-Spotify partnership in 2011. A dual national with British-American citizenship and Portuguese heritage, her journalistic career and education have largely been based in the U.K., seeing her graduate from London's City University in 2004 and working as a local radio journalist for Britain's oldest commercial radio station, Radio Jackie 107.8FM. She went on to work for BBC Television before joining Forbes' London bureau in late 2005.

Gary Johnson is the Libertarian candidate for President and the former two-term Governor of New Mexico. He has been a consistent advocate for limited, efficient government and personal liberty. An outspoken pro-Constitution Libertarian, Johnson would end the war in Afghanistan now. He opposes the failed multi-billion dollar war on drugs and demands greater transparency at the Federal Reserve. As president, Johnson would cut federal spending by 43 percent, slash debt and make government live within its means while reducing taxes and regulation to foster real job creation and economic opportunity like he did in eight years as governor. The National Review said he was "#1" in job creation as governor. An avid skier and bicyclist, he has reached the highest peaks on four of the seven continents, including Mount Everest.

Richard Belzer is a stand-up comedian, actor, and author. He is currently cast and best known for his role as John Munch on the hit NBC show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has written such books as UFOs, JFK, and Elvis (2000) and the novels I Am Not a Cop! (2009) and I Am Not a Psychic!

Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics and Oxford University). He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research ( Cambridge ), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research ( London ) and at the Institute for the Study of Labor ( Bonn ). His research interests include Labor Economics, Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics. His new book, THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS, is now available in bookstores.

Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, Ralph Nader has helped us drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments for more than four decades. Consumer advocate and author of the new book "Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win," Ralph Nader continues his citizen action work.

Craig Newmark is a self-described nerd, pioneer of the Web, speaker, philanthropist, and a strong advocate of the use of technology for the pubic good. In 1995 he founded Craigslist, which has become one of the world's most-visited websites with around 50 billion pages viewed per month. In 2011 he founded Craigconnects, his personal Web-based initiative that supports organizations making a difference in areas including open government, public diplomacy, back-to-basics journalism and fact-checking, consumer protection, and technology for the public good. Newmark currently serves on the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity, Sunlight Foundation, Consumers Union/Consumer Reports, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He also serves as an advisor on the use of technology to more than a dozen other non-profit organizations and government agencies. Newmark blogs regularly on his own craigconnects.org website, the Huffington Post, and SF Gate.

Tom Bevan is the co-founder and Executive Editor of RealClearPolitics. Prior to launching the site in 2000 with Princeton University classmate John McIntyre, Tom worked for nearly a decade in the advertising and communications industries. In addition to overseeing the editorial staff and writing regular features for RealClearPolitics, Tom’s work has appeared in numerous publications and he is featured frequently as a political analyst on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, the BBC.

Ambassador Henry Crumpton is a renowned counter terrorism expert, and is truly revered as a legend in the world of international intelligence and espionage. For a crucial period, he led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies, including al Qaeda. His new bestselling book, The Art of Intelligence, draws from the full arc of Crumpton's espionage and covert action exploits to explain what America's spies do and why their service is more valuable than ever. From his early years in Africa, where he recruited and ran sources, from loathsome criminals to heroic warriors; to his liaison assignment at the FBI, the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, the development of the UAV Predator program, and the Afghanistan war; to his later work running all CIA clandestine operations inside the United States, he employs enthralling storytelling to teach important lessons about national security, but also about duty, honor, and love of country.