Jake Tapper wrote the bestselling nonfiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, which was turned into a critically acclaimed film in 2020, and two New York Times bestselling novels, The Hellfire Club and The Devil May Dance. He is an Emmy Award-winning TV journalist as lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN. A Dartmouth graduate and Philly native, he lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, son, three dogs, and cat.

Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and a CNN contributor. Before that, he created Politico’s West Wing Playbook newsletter and worked at The New York Times and Vice News. A Harvard graduate, he lives in Washington, DC. He has no pets, but is a proud uncle.

David Remnick was named the editor of The New Yorker in 1998. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, where he was a Moscow correspondent. He is the author of seven books, including King of the World, Resurrection, and Lenin’s Tomb, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. Remnick has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine and, in 2015, became the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, a national radio program and podcast. During his tenure, The New Yorker has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards and, in a first for a magazine, eight Pulitzer Prizes. In 2016, Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.