
He went to Moscow as a feature writer, came home with a Pulitzer, and took charge of The New Yorker without surrendering the habit that got him there: asking one more question.

For nearly three decades, Ryan Lizza translated Washington's private language for the public. Then the longtime magazine writer and Politico Playbook co-author decided the old political-news machinery could no longer describe the moment - and built his own newsroom instead.

From a college blog to Vox, then from polarization to abundance, Ezra Klein has made a career of stepping back from the headline and asking what system produced it.

From a teenage internship on Capitol Hill to Moscow, Tora Bora, and the weekly churn of Washington, Susan Glasser built a career by watching what powerful people do before everyone agrees on what it means.
Ben Domenech is a conservative writer, publisher, and broadcaster who co-founded The Federalist in 2013 and now serves as opinion editor of The Daily Wire. A teenage prodigy who wrote a National Review Online column before he could legally drink, he became the youngest political appointee in the George W. Bush administration, then built a career as one of the most prolific and combative voices on the American right. He is a Fox News contributor, hosts The Big Ben Show podcast, publishes the insider newsletter The Transom, and is married to TV personality Meghan McCain.