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Emily Bazelon is one of the three founding editors of DoubleX and a senior editor at Slate. She is also a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. (Yes she wonders if that god of modern journalism is raising an eyebrow somewhere.) She grew up in Philadelphia and lives in New Haven, Conn., with her husband Paul and their two sons, Eli and Simon, who she hopes will forgive her when they figure out how much she has written about them. She has a desultory relationship with Facebook but will friend you back if you tell her you're a fan of DoubleX or the Slate Political Gabfest.

Meghan O'Rourke is a founding editor of DoubleX. A former culture editor of Slate, she is also a poet and the author of Halflife (2007), which was a finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize. She began dividing her time between poetry and journalism at the age of 11, when she made her brother and cousins spend a summer vacation producing a literary magazine. It contained several of her haikus and a one-line masthead announcing her to be its "editor." Her first real job was at The New Yorker, where she was an editorial assistant to literary editor Bill Buford, and later became a fiction and nonfiction editor. She has written for The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and her poems have appeared in Poetry,the New Republic, and elsewhere. In addition to her work for DoubleX, she writes the so-called "Highbrow" column for Slate. She attended Yale University and lives in Brooklyn, where she was raised without a TV.

Hanna Rosin is a founding editor of DoubleX.She splits her time writing longer stories for the Atlantic and shorter ones for DoubleX. This year, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for a story about transgendered children, and roundly attacked for another story about breast-feeding. She got her start in journalism at the New Republic writing contrarian essays, and more recently worked at the Washington Post, doing straight reporting, mostly on politics and religion. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times and GQ. She was born in Israel, grew up in Queens, and went to Stanford University. She now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Slate editor David Plotz, and their three children (whom she loves despite what the breastfeeding advocates say). She is also the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save the Nation. She has maybe five followers on Twitter only two of whom are relatives but if more come then she may actually start, you know, tweeting.

Peggy White is the publisher of DoubleX. She has spent most of her career in the sports and news industries, including the last 12 years in digital publishing. A lifelong New Yorker, she envisioned a careerin law but after a brief stint in the corporate law department at one of those high-finance firms, opted for the shorter program and earned her MBA at Columbia. She lives with the love of her life, his three kids and her two toy poodles on Long Island, a NYC suburb,and spends a lot of time driving and reading the work of her prolific colleagues—although not at the same time.

Jessica Grose is the managing editor of DoubleX. She earned her lady blogging stripes at Jezebel, Gawker Media's website for women, where she was an editor. She wrote thousands of posts during her 14 months there, most notably a screed on why Sarah Palin makes women so angry, which inspired a Fox News anchor to denounce her on air. She has written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Salon, and the dearly departed Radar. She co-wrote the new book Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home with New York Observer reporter Doree Shafrir, and the two run the website Postcardsfromyomomma.com. She lives in sin with her boyfriend in Brooklyn and their love for the Red Hook Fairway borders on carnal.

Samantha Henig is the associate editor of DoubleX. Before coming to Slate full-time, she worked at Newsweek (just a few floors away!) as a reporter for the Periscope section, which was a finalist for this year's National Magazine Award for best magazine section. She entered the Slate world by writing for the "Explainer" column, then moved into multimedia for Slate V with a series on naughty pleasures called "Vice Capades." She was also, for a glorious nine months, the voice of the Explainer podcast. She has written for Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Sam grew up outside D.C. and attended Cornell, where she co-founded the still-awesome Kitsch magazine, and now lives in Brooklyn. Her weekends are spent watching reruns of 90210 on the Soap network and going to Prospect Park to ogle babies in oversized hats.

Holly Allen is a Slate Web designer. Before joining Slate, she worked as an interactive designer for weather.com and as a design manager for washingtonpost.com. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Georgia. Holly lives in Atlanta with her husband, Tripper, and their golden retriever, Ed.

Torie Bosch edits the "XXtra Small" department of DoubleX and is a copy editor at Slate. She also edits Slate's religion and medical departments and contributes to Slate V. As a high-school student, she wrote a monthly column for Seventeen magazine that focused on only the most important issues in a teenager's life, such body image, boys, and bubblegum pop. After graduating from Penn State, she began working at Slate, where she has thus far spent her entire adult working life.

KJ Dell'Antonia is the lead reviewer for XXtra Small and vastly more qualified to comment on G-Force than on Slumdog Millionaire. Her articles and essays have appeared in Parents, Parenting, and many other similarly named magazines, and she's the co-author of Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos. A former Manhattan assistant district attorney, she uses her posts on legal issues to reassure her father that her University of Chicago law degree isn't wholly going to waste. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, four kids, and two dogs and blogs at raisingdevils.com.

Sara Dickerman is a freelance food writer. After starting off in the movie business, art-directing racy VHS covers for low-budget moviemaker Roger Corman, she started looking for a career about which she could be less cynical, and for seven years or so, earned a living cooking at restaurants like Campanile, Spago, Chez Panisse, and Seattle's Le Pichet and The Harvest Vine. She soon learned you can be cynical about food too, and has written about it, both sardonically and idealistically, for Slate, Saveur, Bon Appetit, and the New York Times Magazine. She won a James Beard award for her Slate piece on rubber gloves in restaurant kitchen, and continues to cook, bare-handed, for her family and friends in Seattle.

Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist for The New Yorker and on the faculty of the Women's Studies Department at Vassar College. She wrote Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons and edited Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love...in 200 Cartoons. Her most recent book, Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple, is with her husband Michael Maslin. She is currently writing a book on women to be published in 2010.

Bonnie Goldstein was born before feminism existed and struck her own path to equal rights. After years living in Mexico as a hippie in the 1970s, she became a private eye in California and Washington D.C. in the 1980s and was a U.S. Senate investigator and ABC News producer in the 1990s. She and her husband, novelist James Grady, now live in an empty nest in a wooded neighborhood outside of D.C. Their daughter, New York documentary director Rachel Grady, belongs to generation X, and their son Nathan, at school in San Francisco, is a member of generation Y. Although the forum would have been useful when she was starting out, she is very happy that blogging was invented in her lifetime.

Miriam Goldstein is a doctoral student in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research focuses on the impact of tiny bits of plastic trash on marine ecosystems. After she got tired of explaining that she does not study, pet, swim with, or talk to dolphins, she began blogging about the slimy and salacious side of ocean science at The Oyster's Garter. Her writing has appeared in Slate and Open Laboratory 2008. Miriam is originally from New Hampshire and now lives in San Diego, Calif. with her husband, two cats, and many jars of pickled sea creatures.

E.J. Graff is associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she directs the Gender & Justice Project, and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. Her awards include the 2008 Sigma Chi Delta award for magazine investigative reporting. Her work appears in such venues as the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and Good Housekeeping. She collaborated on former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy's book Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men—and What To Do About It (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Her first book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004), written while she held a fellowship at Radcliffe, has been widely cited in the same-sex marriage debates. Once upon a time, she thought she would be a poet—one of her poems is sandblasted into the brick floor of the Davis Square subway station in Somerville, Mass.—but journalism grabbed her instead. She tweets at "ejgraff."

Linda Hirshman is the author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, about why educated women should not quit their jobs. She writes equally uncontroversial opinion and analysis for, among other places, Slate, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has both a law degree and a doctorate in philosophy and has held a variety of jobs including representing people in the United States Supreme Court (with mixed results). Contrary to popular belief, she is also happily married and the mother of three daughters as well as the current standard poodle, Joie de Vivre.

Kerry Howley is a blogger at DoubleX. A former senior editor at Reason Magazine, she is currently an Iowa Arts Fellow pursuing an MFA in literary nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and most notably, the Myanmar Times. She has also been a guest on NPR's "On the Media," Fox News' "Weekend Live," and American Public Media's "Marketplace." Due to various unfortunate circumstances, she is no longer permitted to step foot in the following places: her youngest brother's bedroom, a Connecticut pharmacy where her friend Rachel stole some Chapstick in 1989, and the military dictatorship of Myanmar.

Ann Hulbert is the books editor at Slate, where she has written the "Sandbox" column as well as other pieces over the years since its founding. A contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine for the past several years, she is also a contributing editor at The American Scholar as well as an editor-at-large for The Wilson Quarterly. She got her start in journalism as a summer intern at the New Republic, and went on to become a senior editor there, working in the magazine's back-of-the-book. All along she's juggled editing and writing, which she has done for all of the above, as well as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford and Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children. One piece of advice the book didn't cover, and she now needs: how to survive empty nesthood. She and her husband, Steve Sestanovich, suddenly face the prospect of life in Washington D.C. without both Ben and Clare.

Juliet Lapidos is an assistant editor at Slate. She writes for the Explainer weekly and, with far less regularity, for "Culturebox," especially on nerdy TV shows like "Lost," "The X-Files," and "Battlestar Galactica." Before discovering DVR, she studied Comparative Literature at Yale and 18th century British novels at Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar from 2005 to 2006.

Rachael Larimore is Slate's copy chief and deputy managing editor. A graduate of Ohio University's journalism school, she was a sportswriter for various newspapers and websites before coming to Slate.

Dayo Olopade is a blogger for the XX Factor and a political junkie. Two prior stints in Washington, as an objectified Hill intern and a student of constitutional law, didn't take—but the third time has been the charm. After graduating from Yale University with degrees in Literature and in African Studies, she returned to Washington as a reporter-researcher at the New Republic, where she covered race, religion, energy policy and Chicago politics during Campaign 2008. After months of typing "Barack Obama's historic candidacy," she made it official as the first Washington correspondent for The Root, a Slate Group sister site covering black politics and culture. Born and raised in Chicago's Hyde Park with extremely Nigerian parents, she is also a biker, cook, and freelance DJ. Her work has appeared in print and online at the New Republic, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the American Prospect, Radar, Transition Magazine and the Washington Post.

Dahlia Lithwick writes about legal affairs for Slate. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and two sons. She believes she is the oldest living member of the Kraft Cheese and Macaroni Club.

Noreen Malone is the deputy On-Ramp editor of DoubleX, and works for The Slate Group as the assistant to the editor-in-chief. She's written regularly for Slate's XX Factor blog, "Shopping," and Explainer columns, on topics ranging from black holes to Meghan McCain's prose—separate but perhaps not unrelated beats. She grew up with her five siblings outside Cleveland. (People often like to mention to LeBron James that he and Noreen are the same age and from the same part of the world—it makes him feel very underacheiving). Noreen attended Georgetown University, and now lives in New York, where she's trying her best to become a Mets fan in 2009, but would really rather talk about the 1995-2001 Indians.

Melonyce McAfee is a Slate copy editor. She also edits the site's "Dear Prudence" column. She landed an editorial assistant position at Slate after working as a community news writer at the San Diego Union-Tribune. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

Laura Moser is the author of a Bette Davis biography and the co-author of the Tenth-Grade Social Climber young-adult series. After a stint in book publishing, she now makes her living ghostwriting health and diet books for celebrities. She grew up in Houston, graduated from Amherst College, and now lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two cats. A male baby should appear on the scene later this month.

Nick Olsen's career in architecture ended before it ever began at Columbia University, where he presented his studio critics with a wedding cake (with real icing and plastic columns) and called it an art gallery. Obviously a born decorator, he's spent the nearly five years post-college assisting Miles Redd, the profession's answer to Fred Astaire, drooling over each client's home while crafting his own on the thinnest of shoestring budgets. Thanks to a recommendation from Miles, his first studio apartment—an oregano green, high-style pastiche—landed on the cover of the dearly departed Domino magazine in 2006, which led to a gig blogging as The Deal Hunter on their website. He's been featured in the Washington Post and started his own blog, www.nickolsenstyle.blogspot.com, in 2009. Nick is currently renovating another apartment in downtown Manhattan. Yes, it's a rental!

Jill Hunter Pellettieri is Slate's managing editor. Jill previously worked at Legal Affairs magazine in New Haven, Conn., and before that was an editor at the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter. A native of the Bay Area, she is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Willa Paskin is a freelance writer living in New York. She is a former editor of Radar magazine who has written for Variety, The Daily Beast, and Salon, among others. She attended the University of Chicago and journalism school at NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She also holds a self-awarded, advanced degree in terrible television.

Lucinda Rosenfeld's new novel, I'm So Happy for You—about dueling best friends—will be published by Little Brown/Back Bay in July. She is also the author of the novels, What She Saw... and Why She Went Home. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Creative Non-Fiction, Glamour, and Slate. Lucinda spent her youth entering contests and keeping lists of her winnings. This is how she knows that in 1982, at the age of twelve, her papier-mâché model of an anthracite coal mine was awarded second prize at New Jersey History Day (regional). She lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two young daughters.

Amanda Schaffer is a science and medical columnist for DoubleX and Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times science section. She has also written for Technology Review, Bookforum, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Along with many pieces on health and basic science, she has chased down meteorite dealers, recombinant DNA sculptures, decellularized hearts, and a device to suspend stem cells in the eye. She studied history and science at Harvard, flirted briefly with medical school, then got a masters degree writing about her cadaver. Originally from Greenwich Village, she now lives with her husband Dennis in Brooklyn in a converted Catholic school.

Elinor Shields is deputy editor of The Big Money. Previously, she was managing editor of the Huffington Post. Shields has also worked as a senior journalist at BBCNews.com in London and as a reporter for Time Europe. She has a degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and a degree in history from Cambridge.

Nina Shen Rastogi writes the "Green Lantern" column for Slate. She also contributes regularly to the Explainer, where she has written on such diverse and edifying topics as industrial turkey breeding, prehistoric megafauna, and the sexual powers of vegetarians. A graduate of Yale, Nina has a master's degree in Shakespearean studies from King's College London and another in cultural journalism from NYU. Favorite past gigs include high school English teacher and graphic novel editor. Born in Jersey and raised in Little Taipei (a.k.a. San Jose, Calif.), Nina now resides in Brooklyn.

Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning freelance writer and a sometimes-correspondent for PBS' "Nova ScienceNow" and WNYC's "RadioLab." Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, O the Oprah Magazine, and Discover, among others. She blogs at Culture Dish and teaches nonfiction in the creative writing program at the University of Memphis. Skloot financed her degrees in science and writing by working in emergency rooms, neurology labs, veterinary morgues, and martini bars. She posts a lot on Facebook and Twitter, but swears she's not addicted (don't believe her). Skloot's first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will be published by Crown in spring 2010. Author and critic Floyd Skloot calls it, "A brilliant piece of narrative reporting that raises important issues in science, bioethics and law." (Okay, so he's her dad, but still.)

Dana Stevens is the movie critic for Slate, a regular participant in the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast, and an occasional but enthusiastic contributor to the XX Factor. In past lives, she was Slate's TV critic, a pseudonymous movie blogger, and a grad student in Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner (the wrong word, but still haven't found the right one) and their three-year-old daughter.

Mimi Swartz is the author, with Sherron Watkins, of Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron, and an executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine. She is very excited about writing for DoubleX because now that her son is going away to college, she is worried about how to fill all that new free time. Yoga, cardio, and weight-training just aren't enough.

Ellen Tarlin is a Slate copy editor. Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Brooklyn Bridge, and Bark magazine.

June Thomas, Slate's foreign editor, grew up in Manchester, England, but has now lived in the United States for more than half her life. She worked on two feminist newspaper collectives in two world capitals (off our backs in Washington, D.C., and Outwrite in London), on two women's radio shows, and at two feminist publishers. She is obsessed with Spanish movies, seersucker suits, and dentistry.

Julia Turner is Slate's deputy editor. Working from Slate's New York office, she edits the "Spectator" and "Drink" columns as well as pieces on advertising, fashion, language and media. She also appears on Slate's Culture Gabfest podcast and writes regularly for the magazine. Before joining Slate, she worked at Time Inc.—first in magazine development and later at Sports Illustrated Women. She usually pipes up on DoubleX about terrible outfits, or great outfits unfairly maligned as terrible.

Emily Yoffe writes Slate's "Human Guinea Pig" column, in which she tries things readers have too much dignity to do (enter the Mrs. America Contest, make her singing debut). She is also "Dear Prudence," answering questions on manners and morals. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, O the Oprah Magazine, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She wishes her book, What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner, had been titled "Marley and Me." She attended Wellesley College and lives in Maryland with her husband and teenage daughter.

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate. Formerly a member of the Washington Post editorial board, she has also worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as the political editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at several British newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. Anne was born in Washington, D.C. in 1964. After graduating from Yale University, she was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St. Antony's College, Oxford. Her husband, Radoslaw Sikorski, is a Polish politician and writer. They have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz.

Cynthia Gorney is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines, including Harper's, The New Yorker, O the Oprah Magazine, and Runner's World, and for 16 years she was a staff reporter at the Washington Post. She is currently a faculty member at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the author of Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars.

Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law at Yale Law School, a position she assumed in January 2009 following a 40-year career at the New York Times. From 1978 until 2008, she was the newspaper's Supreme Court correspondent. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards while covering the Supreme Court, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University's Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." In 2008, she received the annual award for constitutional commentary from the non-partisan Constitution Project. Her biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005. She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School (1978), which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship. She is married to Eugene R. Fidell, who is Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale. Their daughter, Hannah, is in graduate school in New York.

Melinda Henneberger is the editor-in-chief of PoliticsDaily.com and a former XX Factor blogger. She spent 10 years as a reporter for the New York Times, in the paper's Washington and Rome bureaus, and is the author of If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear (2007, Simon & Schuster.) She also writes a regular column for the Catholic opinion journal, and lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, with her husband, reporter Bill Turque, and their highly political 13-year-old twins.

Ruth Marcus has, as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist at The Washington Post, covered every institution in Washington, from the Supreme Court to the White House to Congress. She has reported on every major Washington story of the last two decades, from contested Supreme Court nominations to contested elections; from hard-fought political campaigns to a hard-fought presidential impeachment. Marcus was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and raised in Livingston, N.J., where the local passion tended toward shopping rather than politics. She studied history at Yale, and became hooked on journalism from the moment she received her first assignment from the college newspaper, a story about where to buy firewood. She took a brief detour to graduate from Harvard Law School, where her writing ability somehow survived the footnote-intensive process of serving on the Harvard Law Review. Marcus joined the Post as a staff writer in 1984 and has covered the Justice Department, the Supreme Court, the White House, and national politics, with a particular expertise in campaign finance and lobbying. After serving as a deputy national editor, a stint that included supervising coverage of the messy aftermath of the 2000 election, Marcus became a member of the Post editorial board in 2003, where she discovered what no one else who knew her doubted: that she was full of sharp opinions and not shy about expressing them. Her occasional op-ed columns developed into a weekly column in late 2005. In 2007, after her first full year of column-writing, Marcus was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. The Pulitzer board cited "her intelligent and incisive commentary on a range of subjects, using a voice that can be serious or playful." Marcus met her husband in the classic Washington way: She was covering the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas, and he was working for a senator on the Judiciary Committee. They have two daughters who are, for the most part, tolerant about being used as column fodder and sometimes even read what their mother writes.

Sara Mosle has written for the New York Times , The New Yorker, and Slate, among many other publications. A former charter member of Teach for America in New York City, where she taught for several years, she writes frequently about educational issues. She is finishing a book about the London Consolidated School explosion, which killed hundreds of school children in the East Texas oil field in 1937, and writes about the DIY movement for DoubleX. She has a young daughter and currently lives with her family in Dallas, Texas, where she grew up.

Kathleen Parker is the most widely distributed woman columnist in the country. Syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, her twice-weekly commentary appears in more than 400 newspapers, as well as on dozens of websites. Parker also has written for a variety of magazines, including Time, the Weekly Standard, National Review, Town & Country, and Cosmopolitan. Parker is the author of Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (Random House, 2008). She is a regular on "The Chris Matthews Show" and a frequent guest on "Face the Nation." The mother of three grown sons, she divides her time between Camden, S.C. and Washington, D.C.

Katha Pollitt is a poet, an essayist, and a columnist for The Nation. She is the author most recently of Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, a collection of personal essays. Her collection of poems, The Mind-Body Problem, will be published by Random House in June.

Lynn Povich was the first woman senior editor at Newsweek magazine, the editor-in-chief of Working Woman magazine and the managing editor/east coast of MSNBC.com. She is founding member of the Online News Association and is also active on the boards of the International Women's Media Foundation and the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Lynn grew up in Washington, D.C., is married to Steve Shepard, the former editor-in-chief of Business Week and founding dean of the graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York, and has two adult children, a filmmaker and a musician.

Sally Quinn, Washington Post journalist, author and Washington D.C. insider, founded and co-moderates "On Faith," a blog from the Washington Post and Newsweek. Co-moderated by Newsweek editor and bestselling author Jon Meacham and hosted by a panel of renowned religious scholars of all denominations, "On Faith" is the first worldwide, interactive discussion about religion and its impact on global life. While researching an article about religion in Washington prior to the 2000 presidential campaign, Quinn noticed that while religion had an enormous influence on worldwide politics, it was a taboo subject in our nation's capital. Following 9/11, Quinn's interest in religion grew and her passion to understand it from a personal and political perspective took on new urgency and focus. Over the last decade, Quinn has pursued a religious education with the same drive and rigor she once gave to politics. Leveraging her rolodex from 30 years as a columnist, she sought out spiritual mentorship from religious leaders and scholars such as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Jim Anderson, Father Bryan Hehir, and John Esposito. To gain emotional and spiritual perspective, she traveled to many of the world's holy sites in Rome, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Tibet, Delhi, Cairo, Ethiopia, and Istanbul, and began attending several religious services and ceremonies a week at churches, temples and mosques. Quinn has written four books: We're Going to Make You a Star, about her short-lived experience as a co-anchor for "CBS Morning News"; Regrets Only, her first novel; Happy Endings, its sequel; and The Party, in which Quinn offers an insider's look at Washington entertaining and a personal view of the value of friendship. She is currently working on a book about religion in Washington. Quinn is married to Benjamin Bradlee, the executive editor of the Post, and has one son, Quinn.

Katie Roiphe is the author most recently, of Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages. She enraged many people with her first book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism. Since then, her articles have appeared in many places, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Vogue, Esquire, and Harper's. She is a professor in the Cultural Reporting Criticism program at New York University, and she lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.

Marjorie Valbrun is a contributing writer at The Root where she writes about immigration, gender issues and the role of race in American politics. She spent the first half of her career working as a reporter at the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers. After years of dispensing her strong political opinions for free to friends, fellow journalists, and anyone else who would listen, she decided that it made more sense to get paid for her opinions and went to work as an editorial writer at the Baltimore Sun. From there she spread her opinions far and wide, including in op-ed articles for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Newsday, and of course, on XX Factor, where the other opinionated ladies give her a good run for her money. She has also done political commentary on National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Black Entertainment Television News, and the Al Arabiya News Channel. When she's not weighing in the issues of the day, she's teaching advanced reporting and writing at Howard University in Washington, D.C., her adopted hometown which is populated with fellow political pundits.

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