David Corn is Mother Jones' D.C. Bureau Chief. He writes on a host of subjects, including politics, the White House, Congress, and the national security establishment. He has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA leak case, the Pentagon, and other Washington players and institutions. The longtime Washington editor of The Nation, Corn has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The New Republic, Slate, Salon, and many other publications. A Fox News Channel contributor, Corn has appeared on ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos, PBS's Newshour, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Fox News Sunday, Washington Week in Review, The McLaughlin Group, Hardball, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and many other shows. In the radio world, he is a regular on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show and To the Point and has contributed commentary to NPR, BBC Radio, and CBC Radio. He is the coauthor, with Michael Isikoff, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown, 2006), a New York Times best-seller, as well as The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, both New York Times best-sellers.

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James Ridgeway is Mother Jones' Washington senior correspondent. A longtime Washington correspondent for the Village Voice, Ridgeway helped launch the modern muckraking era when he revealed that General Motors had hired private eyes to spy on a then-obscure consumer advocate named Ralph Nader. The exposé prompted hearings on Capitol Hill (during which G.M. president James Roche was eventually forced to apologize to Nader) and made Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, a bestseller. Ridgeway has written 16 books, including 2005's The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11. His broad-based national reporting has appeared in publications ranging from Harper's to The Economist to the New York Times Magazine. He is known for his writing on the American right wing, from the mainstream conservative movement to the far right. He has also reported many international stories, including the coup in Haiti and the democratic revolution in Eastern Europe. Ridgeway codirected Blood in the Face, a companion film to his book by the same name, as well as Feed, a documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign.

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Daniel Schulman is the associate editor for Mother Jones' D.C. bureau. Schulman has worked as an investigative reporter producing groundbreaking stories for Mother Jones and motherjones.com. With James Ridgeway, Schulman detailed the under-the-radar effort by investment banks, multinational corporations, and Bush administration officials to privatize the nation's highways. Another of his investigations uncovered the deceptive push polls used by independent right-wing organizations to suppress Democratic and Independent voter turnout in the 2006 midterm election. The story gained national media attention, and after the election Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) introduced legislation to outlaw harassing robo-calls and other attempts to mislead voters. A former assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix, among other publications.

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Laura Rozen has made a name for herself as one of D.C.'s best-sourced and most hard-nosed national security reporters, working as a senior correspondent for the Washington Monthly and the American Prospect. Though she has been fearless in exposing the failures and fallacies of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Rozen also has quite a following among conservative and mainstream policy wonks. Previously, Rozen worked for four years as a journalist in the Balkans for publications including the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Salon, the UK Independent, the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, CBS, and Monitor Radio. Rozen earned a master's degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, with a concentration in international security studies. Born and raised in Kansas City, she has lived in Moscow, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Kosovo, and Cambridge, Massachusetts for much of the past decade.

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Jonathan Stein is a reporter and former assistant web editor and editorial fellow for Mother Jones, Stein was instrumental in researching "Lie By Lie," Mother Jones' interactive timeline that chronicles the unmistakable and cynical pattern of lies that led the country into pre-emptive war in Iraq. The timeline, which includes hundreds of entries, has been praised by sources from Rolling Stone to Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, who called it "historically significant." Appearing in both Mother Jones magazine and at motherjones.com, the timeline pioneered an integration of print journalism with online resources and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for best interactive online feature. A 2005 graduate of Harvard University, Stein cofounded New Deal Magazine, an online progressive magazine for college students.

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Stephanie Mencimer has been a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly. She was previously an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and a staff writer for the Washington City Paper and Legal Times. A native of Ogden, Utah, and a graduate of the University of Oregon, Mencimer won the 2000 Harry Chapin Media Award for her reporting on hunger and poverty. In 2003, she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship to focus on the media coverage of the civil justice system, and in 2004 was nominated for a National Magazine Award for her Washington Monthly article on the politics of medical malpractice. She has taught journalism at Georgetown University and is the author of the recent book Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue (Free Press, 2006).

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Bruce Falconer comes to Mother Jones after being a staff editor at the Atlantic for almost six years. Among many other things, Bruce worked closely with William Langewiesche, the best-selling author of American Ground. He has also written about such topics as genocide, terrorism, the U.S. military, and the Iraq War while on international assignment to Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

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