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Marshall, Paul
Debate: Islam is Dominated By Radicals
Senior Fellow in the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute from Freedom House
Paul has held many professorships, is author and editor of twenty-five books on religion and politics, and his writings have been translated into Russian, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian,… more
Martinez, Andrés
Debate: America is to Blame for Mexico's Drug War
Director, The New America Foundation's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program.
Directs the New America Foundation's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program. He was the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2004-2007, and presided over the newspaper's op-ed page… more
Matsuda, Mari
Debate: Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend
Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and an activist scholar who brings in the outsiders’ perspective
Mari specializes in the fields of torts, constitutional law, legal history, feminist theory, critical race theory, and civil rights law. She was the first tenured female Asian American law professor… more
McArthur, John
Debate: Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm Than Good
Deputy Director of the UN Millennium Project
John serves concurrently as associate director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, where his… more
McCarthy, Andrew C.
Debate: Better More Domestic Surveillance Than Another 9/11
Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Contributor to National Review Online
From 1993 to 1996, while an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.… more
McConnell, Mike
Debate: The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated
Executive Vice President, National Security Business for Booz Allen Hamilton.
is executive vice president and leader of the National Security Business for Booz Allen Hamilton and is a member of the firm’s Leadership Team. Admiral McConnell previously served from 2007-2009… more
McGregor, James
Debate: Beware The Dragon: A Booming China Spells Trouble for America
Key Advisor to both the U.S. and Chinese Governments
A Mandarin speaker, James was the Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the chief executive of Dow Jones' China business operations during much of the… more
McLaughlin, Kate
Debate: Don't Blame Teachers Unions For Our Failing Schools
Elementary Teacher, Lowell Public Schools, Massachusetts
Has been an elementary teacher in the Lowell, Massachusetts public schools since 1999. She is currently a mathematics coach working with both teachers and students from kindergarten through fourth grade.… more
McWhorter, John H.
Debate: It's Time to End Affirmative Action
Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and weekly columnist for the New York Sun
John's academic specialty is language change and language contact. He is the author of 11 books, including Losing the Race, an anthology of race writings, and Winning the Race: Beyond… more
Mearsheimer, John J.
Debate: Beware The Dragon: A Booming China Spells Trouble for America
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago
Professor Mearsheimer has taught at the University of Chicago since 1982. He has written extensively about security issues and international politics. He has published three books, including Conventional Deterrence and… more
