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.

Max Follmer is a reporter at The Huffington Post, based in Los Angeles. He previously covered California's legal system for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and Washington DC for the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. Max can be reached at follmer@huffingtonpost.com.