Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington Post opinion columnist, and one of the most accurate election forecasters of the past two decades. He called the 2024 presidential race for Donald Trump, including a popular-vote win, while most analysts hedged. A lawyer by training and a Reagan scholar by obsession, Olsen studies the working-class voters that conventional polling tends to miss, and he hosts the weekly podcast 'Beyond the Polls.'

Heather Cox Richardson is a Boston College historian who turned American history into a daily newsletter phenomenon. Her Substack 'Letters from an American' has nearly 3 million subscribers, making it one of the most-read independent newsletters in the world. She connects current political events to historical patterns with a clarity that has made her one of America's most influential public intellectuals - all from coastal Maine, where she lives with her lobsterman husband.