Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, an unconventional, wide-ranging weekday news program on CNN. Mr. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN's weekend anchor before moving to the 7 pm hour in March 2003 following the war in Iraq. Since joining CNN, Mr. Cooper has anchored major breaking news stories, including the network's overnight coverage of the...

Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston is a technology-loving comedian from the future who cares enough about the world to engage with it politically. Yes, he votes. Regularly. With an ancestry that includes a great-grandfather who taught himself to read, a grandmother who was the first black employee at the U.S. Supreme Court building and a mother who took over radio stations in the name of the black liberation...

Bill Maher

Whether skewering Republicans, Democrats, the mass media or Hollywood, Bill Maher is one of the most perceptive and hilarious satirists at work today. From the podium he delivers his trademark blend of devastating social commentary and politically incorrect humor that always leaves audiences begging for more.

Bob Woodward

Called the most famous investigative reporter in America by the New York Times, Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of...

Capitol Steps

Twenty five years ago the Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom (Don't quit your day job!), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a...

Cenk  Uygur

Cenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show. The Young Turks are on XM Satellite Radio 8-9PM ET (XM 167, America Left) and on Sirius Left 146. The Young Turks is one of the Top 100 You Tube Partners, with over 18 million views a month on their You Tube Channel...

Connie Chung

An award-winning investigative reporter/anchor and one of the most recognizable faces on American television, Connie Chung has been a powerful force in the news industry for more than 35 years. On the lecture stage she draws on her unique experiences as a working mother in addressing the challenges today’s women face, advocating diversity in the workplace, and inspiring younger journalists...

David Javerbaum

David Javerbaum was the Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central's Emmy Award-winning mock newscast which, according to a Pew Research Center poll, is a primary news source for over 20 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds.

Ed Schultz

Ed Schultz is currently the host of The Ed Show, which is the number two rated show on MSNBC. He also hosts The Ed Schultz Show, a nationally syndicated radio program with a weekly audience of more than 3 million listeners. He has won three Eric Sevareid Awards, managed a broadcast team that won two Marconi Radio Awards and a Peabody Award, and has been named one of the top 10 radio hosts in the c

Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Soboroff is a host and producer for HuffPost Live, the new live streaming network of The Huffington Post, and has created and hosted programming for some of the most well-known networks in the United States...

Jake Tapper

A prolific journalist and writer, JAKE TAPPER’s work has been lauded by such legendary newsmen Bob Woodward as “Brilliant, dedicated reporting by a journalist who goes to ground to get the truth.” Currently serving as the chief Washington correspondent and daily news anchor for CNN, Tapper has been a widely-respected reporter in the nation’s capital for over 14 years. Prior to joining CNN...

Jon Lovett

Jon Lovett is the Co-Creator and Head Writer of the NBC sitcom, "1600 Penn". Prior to this, Jon spent three years as a speechwriter for President Barack Obama during a dynamic and tumultuous time in our history, allowing for a unique perspective on politics, humor, communications, and the absurd way things really work in our nation's capital. During his tenure at the White House, Jon drafted...

Katty  Kay

Katty Kay (pronounced CAT-TEE) is the lead anchor of BBC World News America. Prior to taking over as lead anchor, Kay served as the Washington Correspondent for BBC since 2002. Kay's career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she started filing radio reports for BBC World Service radio. From there she also covered the end of apartheid in South Africa. Kay then went on to work...

Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann began his professional career at UPI and the RKO Radio Network before joining CNN in 1981. In 1992, Olbermann joined ESPN hosting their flagship show, "Sportscenter", a position he held until 1997. While at ESPN, Olbermann expanded his duties on ESPN2 as their "marquee" personality to help launch the network in 1993. In 1997, Keith left ESPN to host a primetime show on MSNBC...

Mika Brzezinski

Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of “Morning Joe” and an MSNBC anchor. Brzezinski also reports on “NBC Nightly News” and is an alternating news anchor for “Weekend Today.” Mika has developed a reputation as a tough but balanced interviewer not afraid to ask the hard-hitting questions whether she’s speaking with a corporate CEO, a presidential candidate or a tenured politician. During the 20...

Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas governor MIKE HUCKABEE is the host of the number one rated weekend hit Huckabee on the Fox News Channel and Cumulus Media Networks’ syndicated radio program, The Mike Huckabee Show, heard on more than 175 stations. He’s also heard three times daily across the nation on The Huckabee Report syndicated on almost 600 stations, and has been the fastest growing new program...

Paul Rieckhoff

Paul Rieckhoff, 35, is the Executive Director and Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), America’s first and largest organization for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. A nonpartisan, nonprofit founded in 2004 with over 200,000 members in all 50 states, IAVA’s mission is to improve the lives of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and their families. From 2003 to 2004, Rieckhoff...

Senator George Mitchell

Senator George J. Mitchell is the co-chair of Piper Rudnick's Government Controversies practice group. Mitchell entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 when he was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become secretary of state.

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert stars in and executive produces the hit latenight series on Comedy Central, The Colbert Report. Touted by the New York Times as “one of the best television shows of the year” and praised as “a must watch show” by Entertainment Weekly, The Colbert Report has already garnered ratings and critical success as one of the top new entries on the television landscape.

Steve Bodow

Steve Bodow is Head Writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the acclaimed Comedy Central news parody. Since joining TDS in 2002, Steve has won four Emmys, two Television Critics Awards, and a Peabody. He was also a writer for the Daily Show's #1 best-selling America: The Book. As a journalist, Steve has written both humor and "straight" pieces on politics, media, business and culture...

The Daily Show  Live

THE DAILY SHOW LIVE 2013 This hilarious multimedia, hybrid (lecture/ stand-up) event features three correspondents / friends from THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART on Comedy Central. Tour is sponsored by both Comedy Central and The Daily Show and gives the audience an inside looking into one of the most popular shows on television. Each will speak / perform then have a group Q & A with...

Todd Buchholz

Todd Buchholz "lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit," says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the "21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century." His editorials in the Wall Street Journal and commentaries on PBS correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the 2008 pop in commodity prices...

Van Jones

Van Jones is president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. A Yale-educated attorney, Van has written two New York Times Best Sellers: The Green Collar Economy, the definitive book on green jobs, and Rebuild the Dream, a roadmap for progressives in 2012 and beyond. Van is currently a CNN Contributor...

Jim Webb

If the United States has produced such a thing as a Renaissance Man in the modern era, it is surely former US Senator from Virginia Jim Webb. Termed a "legendary fighting man" by Senator John McCain, at the age of 23 Jim Webb had graduated first in his class of 243 in rigorous Marine Corps training, then fought on some of Vietnam's most brutal battlefields, joining a small handful of...

Michael Dobbs

Before “House of Cards” became the most talked about show not on television, exclusively released on Netflix, Michael Dobbs wrote the original novel of the same name which was adapted into a British Series later being honored as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute. Prior to his successful writing career, Michael served in British politics where...