Ezra Klein is a columnist at The New York Times, where he hosts The Ezra Klein Show. Previously, he was the cofounder, editor in chief, and then editor at large at Vox; a columnist and editor at The Washington Post; a political analyst at MSNBC; and a contributor to Bloomberg. He is the author of Why We’re Polarized, a New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama’s top books of 2022.

Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he has worked for the last fourteen years. Writing on economics, technology, and society, he is known for breaking down complicated trends in simple and fun language and for coining terms that become part of the national discourse. In the first half of 2022—the same year he published his popular “abundance agenda” thesis and launched his series on progress—he was the most-read writer at The Atlantic. A news analyst with NPR, Derek appears weekly on the national news show “Here and Now” and is a contributor to CBS News. He is the author of the national bestseller Hit Makers.