Thomas B. Edsall and Robert Dowling

Thomas B. Edsall is the political editor of the Huffington Post. He is also Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. From 1981 to 2006, he was a political reporter at the Washington Post. He is the author of Chain Reaction and Building Red America. Tom can be reached at edsall@huffingtonpost.com.

Bob Dowling is launching a program in Global Business Journalism at Beijing's Tsinghua University, where he is a visiting professor and editorial adviser to Caijing, China's leading business magazine. He was BusinessWeek's international managing editor for 16 years, responsible for editions in Europe, Asia, Latin America and China. His team approach to global journalism earned BusinesWeek 13 Overseas Press Club awards for best economic reporting from abroad. A former Washington and foreign correspondent, he is a frequent speaker and commentator on the global economy and international financial issues. China Watch is his curb side view of the nation's development.