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Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
1 Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz U.S. Senators, Vermont and Texas Because ideas still matter. Even in the age of Trump. Read Bio 2 Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller U.S. senator, Alabama; senior policy adviser to Donald Trump Trump’s policy whisperers. Read Bio 3 DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett Co-founders, Campaign Zero For taking Black Lives Matter from a hashtag to a platform. Read Bio 4 Nancy Isenberg, J.D. Vance Historian, Louisiana State University; writer and investor Demystifying white poverty for the political class. Read Bio 5 Elizabeth Warren U.S. senator, Massachusetts The part of Sanders-ism that will survive Sanders. Read Bio 6 Paul Ryan Speaker of the House For insisting the GOP is still a party of ideas. Read Bio 7 Pat Buchanan Former presidential candidate The proto-Trump. Read Bio 8 Ghazala Khan, Khizr Khan Fabric store clerk; lawyer The speech that shook the election. Read Bio 9 Evan Williams Founder and CEO, Medium Showing us that, finally, the medium is the message in American politics. Read Bio 10 Lin-Manuel Miranda Composer, lyricist, actor Yes, rap can rewrite history. Read Bio 11 Carol Anderson, Michael Tesler Historian, Emory University; political scientist, University of California, Irvine No, it really is about race. Read Bio 12 Michael Froman, Lori Wallach U.S. trade representative; director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch The trade warriors. Read Bio 13 Sara Goldrick-Rab, Adam Green, Mark Huelsman Professor, Temple University; co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee; senior policy analyst, Demos For sparking a national conversation about college affordability. Read Bio 14 Anne Case, Angus Deaton Economists, Princeton University For using big data to tell us what’s wrong with white people. Read Bio 15 Thomas Frank Writer For exposing the Democrats’ class conflict. Read Bio 16 Robert J. Gordon Economist, Northwestern University For pronouncing the death of American growth. Read Bio 17 George Borjas Economist, Harvard University For telling it like it really is on immigration. Read Bio 18 Heather Boushey, Ann O’Leary, Neera Tanden Senior policy advisers to Hillary Clinton The HRC brain trust. Read Bio 19 Robert Kagan Author and senior fellow, Brookings Institution For daring to use the “f-word.” Read Bio 20 David Card, Alan Krueger, Jonathan Westin Economists, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University; director, New York Communities for Change Building the case for a $15 minimum wage. Read Bio 21 Jared Bernstein, Ross Eisenbrey Senior fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; vice president, Economic Policy Institute Making overtime pay again. Read Bio 22 Madeleine Albright, Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem Former secretary of state; writer and actor; activist Because yes, it does matter that Hillary is a woman. Read Bio 23 Gretchen Carlson Former Fox News host For insisting TV news be held accountable, too. Read Bio 24 Gary Johnson Libertarian presidential candidate Making libertarianism cool again. Read Bio 25 James Comey Director, FBI A straight shooter in a town that needs them. Read Bio 26 Tim Cook CEO, Apple The privacy defender. Read Bio 27 Yuval Levin Editor, National Affairs Writing a new dating guide for conservatives and Republican voters. Read Bio 28 Chuck Wexler Executive director, Police Executive Research Forum The police-reform advocate the police listen to. Read Bio 29 Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court justice A new canary in the highest court. Read Bio 30 Rukmini Callimachi, Will McCants Reporter, New York Times; senior fellow, Brookings Institution The Islamic State truth-tellers. Read Bio 31 Alan Sears President, CEO and general counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom For turning bathrooms into a front in the culture wars. Read Bio 32 Vanita Gupta, Catherine Lhamon Head of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division; assistant secretary for civil rights, Department of Education Insisting on transgender rights as civil rights. Read Bio 33 Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, C- SPAN Co-founders, Periscope; C-SPAN programming operations team Seeing politics in a whole new way. Read Bio 34 Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, Katie Packer Editor, Weekly Standard; editor, National Review; Republican strategist The intellectual #NeverTrump right. Read Bio 35 Lorena Gonzalez State assemblywoman, California The progressive ideas lab. Read Bio 36 Will Allen, Debbie Stabenow Manager, Cedar Circle Farm; U.S. senator, Michigan For making food transparent. Read Bio 37 Marc Edwards, Mona Hanna-Attisha Civil engineer, Virginia Tech; pediatrician and medical professor, Michigan State University The Flint whistleblowers. Read Bio 38 Dmitri Alperovitch CTO, CrowdStrike For hacking the hackers. Read Bio 39 Pamela Karlan Professor, Stanford Law School Defending voting rights in the 21st century. Read Bio 40 Shannon Liss-Riordan Attorney For questioning who the sharing economy is taking for a ride. Read Bio 41 Jennifer Doudna Biochemist, University of California, Berkeley For pushing us to the frontiers of science—and not beyond. Read Bio 42 Gary Gensler Chief financial officer, Hillary for America campaign The Wall Street apostate pushing Clinton toward financial progressivism. Read Bio 43 Robert E. Scott Senior economist, Economic Policy Institute The intellectual heft behind the trade-deal bashing. Read Bio 44 Stephanie Kelton Economist, University of Missouri-Kansas City The case for big spending. Read Bio 45 Matthew Desmond Sociologist, Harvard University For turning to a powerful source in explaining poverty: poor people themselves. Read Bio 46 Katharine Hayhoe, Bob Inglis Atmospheric scientist, Texas Tech University; executive director, republicEn The conservative case for fighting climate change. Read Bio 47 Philip Stoddard, Harold Wanless Mayor, South Miami; geologist, University of Miami The climate doomsayers. Read Bio 48 Ady Barkan, Andrew Levin Lawyer, Center for Popular Democracy; economist, Dartmouth University Democratizing the Fed. Read Bio 49 Ben Sasse U.S. senator, Nebraska The happy warrior. Read Bio 50 Marc Andreessen, Fred Wilson, Jerry Brito Venture capitalists; executive director, Coin Center The money men of the future. Read Bio Illustrations: John Jay Cabuay

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