bruce bartlett writes for the Economix blog of the New York Times and is a columnist for Tax Notes magazine. He was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee, a senior policy analyst in the White House, and deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury during the George H. W. Bush administration. bartlettbruce@verizon.net

michael brenes received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 2013. His dissertation is entitled “For Right and Might: The Militarization of the Cold War and the Remaking of American Democracy.” mbrenes@hunter.cuny.edu

sara dubow is Associate Professor of History at Williams College, where she teaches courses in women’s and gender history, recent U.S. history, and legal history. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History and Women’s and Gender History from Rutgers University in 2003. Her book, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and won the 2011 Bancroft Prize. She received a Mellon New Directions Fellowship in 2013 and was a Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School in 2013–14. sara.l.dubow@williams.edu

michael javen fortner is Academic Director and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education at the City University of New York. He studies the intersection of American political development and political philosophy, particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and class. He is completing a book manuscript on the Rockefeller drug laws and editing a volume on urban politics with Amy Bridges. Michael.Fortner@CUNY.edu

deondra rose is Assistant Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. deondra.rose@duke.edu

christopher w. shaw is a visiting lecturer of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book manuscript that examines grassroots influence on American banking policy during the twentieth century. chrisshaw@berkeley.edu

benton williams is Assistant Professor of History at DePaul University, where he teaches African American history, as well as classes on business and law. bwilli18@depaul.edu