Shannon Vavra

Shannon is a reporter at Axios covering national security issues and foreign affairs. She covers the overlap between geopolitical issues and security impacts on the United States, including election security issues.

Bryan Hoch

Bryan Hoch has written about New York baseball for the past two decades, including covering the Yankees as a beat reporter for MLB.com since 2007. Regularly seen on MLB Network, Hoch's work has also been featured in Yankees Magazine, New York Mets Inside Pitch, and on FOXSports.com. He lives in New York City with his wife Connie and daughter Penny.

Zach Braziller

Zach Braziller is a sports reporter for the New York Post

Gordon Chang

Gordon G. Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, released by Random House in January 2006.  Showdown focuses on nuclear proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular.  His first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001). He is a contributor at Forbes.com and blogs at World Affairs Journal.

He lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Barron's. 

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions.  He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon.  He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia.  Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.  

He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a frequent co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show. 

Peter Kiernan

Peter D. Kiernan is a successful businessman, venture philanthropist and corporate and government advisor. For decades he has been a tireless advocate for poverty fighting organizations, education reform, disability and disease related charities and hospital boards. His work in these activities has taken him to every continent on the globe. In books and articles he has investigated how our nation has procrastinated and ignored facing its most pressing problems.

His latest book “American Mojo: Lost and Found” is a penetrating look at how America has let its core middle class founder and how we are preventing this resilient majority from achieving their destiny.

Written through the perspective of individuals who have shaped or been coopted by events of the day, American Mojo treats this powerful subject in a starkly different way than has been done before. Kiernan’s powerful storytelling style paints a portrait of a middle class, its surging successes and the cracks in the façade that expanded as scores of Americans discovered that they were uninvited to the promise of the American dream.

In unflinching detail American Mojo points out how the rich and poor have changed dramatically as the decades have passed, how our social and economic landscape has weathered each successive boom and stormy bust, and how we are using half century and older remedies to fight a new and constantly shifting array of vexations.

American Mojo illuminates the powerful role the American middle class must play in the global drama of economic expansion. Too many other investigations treat the middle class as a principally domestic agenda. In today’s experience and tomorrow’s reality nothing will more certainly guarantee failure. Kiernan’s conclusion that America’s mojo is found and within our grasp is sharpened with specific demonstrations how we can clear the path to middle class greatness and national success. It is Kiernan’s finding of that core spirit that truly distinguishes American Mojo: Lost and Found.