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Coll, Steve
Debate: America Cannot and Will Not Succeed in Afghanistan/Pakistan
President and CEO of New America Foundation
Coll is president and CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor… more
Cook, Steven A.
Debate: A Democratically-Elected Hamas is Still a Terrorist Organization
Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Steven is an expert on Arab politics and US Middle East policy, Cook directed the Council's Independent Task Force on reform in the Arab World. He has written widely on… more
Cowen, Tyler
Debate: It's Wrong to Pay for Sex
Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center
Tyler has written numerous books on the relationship between commerce, the arts, and morality, including In Praise of Commercial Culture and most recently Discover Your Inner Economist. He co-writes a… more
Cox, Chris W.
Debate: America is to Blame for Mexico's Drug War
Executive Director, the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA)
Is the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association of America. Cox oversees seven ILA divisions: Federal Affairs, State… more
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W.
Debate: It's Time to End Affirmative Action
Professor of Law at UCLA and at Columbia Law School
Writing in the areas of civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law, Kimberlé's articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal,… more
Crichton, Michael
Debate: Global Warming is Not a Crisis
Writer and Filmmaker
Michael Crichton was a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. His latest posthumous novel, MICRO, was released on November 22,… more
D'Souza, Dinesh
Debate: Science Refutes God
Author, What's So Great About Christianity
A New York Times bestselling author, Dinesh D’Souza, has had a distinguished 25-year career as a writer, scholar and intellectual. A former Policy Analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza… more
Daniel Pipes
Debate: Better Elected Islamists Than Dictators
President, Middle East Forum
Daniel Pipes is one of the world’s foremost analysts on the Middle East and Islam. Pipes is President of the Middle East Forum, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1994… more
David Brooks
Debate: The GOP Must Seize The Center Or Die
Op-Ed columnist, The New York Times
David Brooks became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in September, 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and… more
David Keating
Debate: Two Cheers for SuperPACs
President, Center for Competitive Politics
David Keating is the president of the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), the only organization dedicated solely to protecting First Amendment political free speech rights through litigation, education and advocacy.… more
