Emily Bazelon is co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, New York Times Magazine staff writer, and former Slate senior editor. She is the author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.

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John Dickerson is a Slate political columnist, co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, host of the Whistlestop podcast, and moderator of Face the Nation on CBS. He is the author, most recently, of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories From Presidential Campaign History. He is also the author of On Her Trail, a biography of his late mother, television newscaster Nancy Dickerson.

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Stefan Fatsis is co-host of Slate’s Hang Up and Listen. His most recent book is A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL.

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Franklin Foer, a Slate contributing editor, is the author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. He is also co-editor of Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame with Marc Tracy. He is currently writing a book about the dark side of Silicon Valley.

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Michelle Goldberg is a columnist for Slate and the author, most recently, of The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West.

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Daniel Gross, a Slate contributor, is the author of Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline ... and the Rise of a New Economy.

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Jack Hamilton is Slate’s pop critic and a professor at the University of Virginia. His first book, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, is available from Harvard University Press.

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Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the Fighting Words column until his death in 2011, is the author of many books, including the posthumously published Mortality. He also wrote Hitch-22: A Memoir; God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything; Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays; Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship; A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq; and Why Orwell Matters.

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Fred Kaplan is Slate’s War Stories columnist and the author, most recently, of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War. He also wrote the Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times best-seller The Insurgents, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, and Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.

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Dan Kois, Slate culture editor and co-host of the Mom and Dad Are Fighting podcast, is the author of Facing Future. He is currently writing a book called How to Be a Family, as well as co-writing an oral history of Angels in America with Isaac Butler.

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Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about courts and the law for Slate and hosts the Amicus podcast, co-authored Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World with Brandt Goldstein. She also wrote the online novel Saving Face.

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Laura Miller is a books and culture columnist for Slate and the author of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. She also co-edited The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley.

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Leon Neyfakh, a Slate staff writer, is the author of The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up.

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Helaine Olen is a Slate columnist and host of the United States of Debt Slate Academy series. She is most recently the co-author of The Index Card with Harold Pollack.

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Cathy O’Neil is co-host of the Slate Money podcast, Mathbabe.org blogger, and former Wall Street quant. Her latest book, Weapons of Math Destruction, is available now from Crown Publishing.

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Rebecca Onion is a Slate staff writer. Her first book, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States, is available from the University of North Carolina Press.

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Meghan O’Rourke, a Slate culture critic and contributor to the Audio Book Club, is most recently the author of The Long Goodbye.

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Mallory Ortberg is Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist, host of the Dear Prudence podcast, co-founder of the Toast, and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre.

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Justin Peters is a Slate correspondent and the author of The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet.

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Phil Plait writes the Bad Astronomy blog on Slate and is the author of Death From the Skies! He also co-wrote 2^7 Nerd Disses: A Significant Quantity of Disrespect with Zach Weinersmith.

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David Plotz is the CEO of Atlas Obscura, host of the Political Gabfest, and former editor in chief of Slate. He is the author, most recently, of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, based on his “Blogging the Bible” series for Slate.

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Hanna Rosin is a founding editor of Slate’s DoubleX, contributor to the DoubleX Gabfest, and co-host of NPR’s Invisibilia. She is most recently the author of The End of Men and co-wrote Are Men Obsolete? with Maureen Dowd, Caitlin Moran, and Camille Paglia.

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Gabriel Roth, a Slate senior editor and the editorial director of Slate Plus, is the author of the novel The Unknowns.

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Reihan Salam is a Slate columnist and co-wrote Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream with Ross Douthat.

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William Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate. He’s the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.

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Rebecca Schuman is a Slate contributor. She is the author of Kafka and Wittgenstein as well as Schadenfreude: A Love Story, now available from Flatiron Books.

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Seth Stevenson, a Slate contributor, is the author of Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World, in which he documents his travels around the globe without leaving the ground.

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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor in chief of The Slate Group, as well as the host of Trumpcast. His most recent book is Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40^th President, 1981–1989. He is the co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World; and the author of the New York Times best-seller The Bush Tragedy, as well as In Defense of Government and the Bushisms series.

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Jessica Winter, Slate’s features editor, is the author of the novel Break in Case of Emergency.

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