William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His article this issue is adapted from The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics.
Scott Winship is a doctoral candidate in social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, and a co-founder of New Vision, a new student-led think tank on social policy
Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, is the author of 13 books and served as co-writer and chief historian for the PBS Series, The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.
Laura Wolf-Powers is a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning and policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University. She and Ann Markusan are co-authors of A Just Transition: Lessons From Defense Workers' Experience in the 1990's.
Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College and is writing a book on why liberalism matters.