The Politic: Can you tell us about yourself? What is your current position, and what previous positions have you had that have lead you to your current position? I’ve been involved with community service since the early 1980’s, when I…
The Politic: Though you are a Republican, you were elected in 2011 in a non-partisan election. This is a tradition in many Texas cities. What are the benefits of keeping party politics out of mayoral elections? Any drawbacks? The bulk…
The Politic’s Online Editor and Business Manager sit down with the Chief of the IMF mission to China.
Patrick Murck is a founding member and Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. His expertise as an executive in a number of digital currency companies extends across the legal and regulatory issues governing the use of bitcoin, decentralized financial systems,…
Bill McKibben is a freelance journalist, writer, and environmental activist. McKibben has published numerous books and articles on the environment and has founded and organized several environmentalist groups. His first book, The End of Nature, published in 1989, is widely…
Professor Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. is the former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He currently serves on the Harvard faculty as a University Distinguished Service Professor, and this year completes fifty years on…
Jameel Jaffer is a human rights and civil liberties attorney. Jaffer is the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the director of ACLU’s Center for Democracy, which is the department of the ACLU that works…
David Cay Johnston is a journalist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001 for his investigative reporting. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. Johnston…
