Elaina Plott Calabro is a staff writer at 

Adam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Cruelty Is the Point. Adam has previously been a recipient of the 2021 Moment Magazine Robert S. Greenberger Journalism award, the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism, and the 2019 Salute to Excellence Award for commentary from the National Association of Black Journalists.

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute.

She was a Washington Post columnist for more than fifteen years and a member of the editorial board. She has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. 

Vann R. Newkirk II is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the host of the podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week.

McKay Coppins is a staff writer at The Atlantic. In 2019, he received the Aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association for his coverage of the Trump presidency; in 2021, he received a Wilbur Award for religion journalism.

Lindsay Cronk is a dynamic library leader and advocate for knowledge equity, currently serving as Dean of Libraries at Tulane University since August 1, 2023. With nearly two decades of experience in consortia and academic libraries, she has developed a data-driven, strategic approach to library service that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and the democratization of knowledge. Known for her ability to operationalize vision, she excels in building and empowering teams to solve complex challenges.

Drawing upon her successful 36-year career in higher education administration, Yvette's areas of expertise include: strategic and program planning; board development, governance, and engagement; organizational assessment; talent building; and all aspects of fundraising and campaign planning and management. Yvette works with clients in health care, education, culture and arts, economic development, and other sectors in the not-for-profit world.