Translating research and good ideas into real-world influence—through communications and network strategies—has long been David DesRosiers’s mission. Before establishing the RealClearFoundation, in partnership with RealClearPolitics, he spent decades in the think-tank, foundation, and media sectors. He has advised nonprofits such as the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, as well as philanthropies such as the Kauffman Foundation.

With a background in policy research and nonprofit fund-raising, Daniel Geary oversees the life cycle of projects taking place under the auspices of the RealClearFoundation. Before becoming the Foundation’s vice president in 2019, he worked at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Geary holds a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College; his dissertation was a policy history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Directed by founding editor Tom Kuntz, RealClearInvestigations (RCI) curates the best investigative journalism daily from around the web. Its vantage point as news aggregator leaves it well-placed to identify gaps in coverage of important issues—which it then fills with original, often contrarian, “hit-’em-where-they-ain’t” investigative reporting. Before launching RCI, Kuntz spent 28 years as an editor at the New York Times. Author of the books The Titanic Disaster Hearings and The Sinatra Files, he also produced TV documentaries for Discovery about rebuilding Ground Zero.

The primary ambassador to the broader media market, Nick Sanchez directs RealClearWire, a syndication service that makes RealClear’s original investigative reporting, commentary, news, and data analysis available for free republication. He draws upon his background as an opinion editor, digital news producer, and book publicist in extending RealClear’s reach and readership.

A former foreign correspondent, culture reporter, and book critic, first for Time magazine and then for the New York Times, Richard Bernstein has reported for RealClearInvestigations on such issues as U.S.-China relations, higher education, religion, and the culture wars. The author of several books, he has proved prescient, time and again. In his 1994 book, Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, Our Lives, Bernstein reported on the conflict between traditional liberal ideals and a multicultural orthodoxy that has reached a fever pitch in all influential quarters, from campuses to major corporations. And in 1997, when it was widely believed that “engagement” with China would lead it to become “a responsible shareholder” in the international system and move toward democratic openness, Bernstein and Ross Munro coauthored The Coming Conflict with China, predicting that China represented a looming authoritarian rival to the United States.

Keeping government accountable starts with putting officeholders on the spot with pointed questions. For more than 20 years, Susan Crabtree has been on the front lines of accountability journalism as a White House and congressional correspondent. Her reporting has brought much-needed transparency to the inner workings of federal policymaking on issues such as international religious freedom, national security, and congressional ethics. Her stories about bribery, corruption, and conflict-of-interest issues on Capitol Hill helped change House and Senate ethics rules and led to FBI and Ethics Committee investigations. Crabtree previously served as a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon, as White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner, and as senior editor and investigative reporter for The Hill. She has also been a media fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a guest speaker at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government seminar for incoming members of Congress. She is a frequent guest political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and C-SPAN.

While government reports may bury evidence of corruption in the 100th page or deep in the footnotes, RealClearInvestigations correspondent Eric Felten will find it and report it. A former columnist for the Wall Street Journal, he has published in Washingtonian, People, National Geographic Traveler, The Weekly Standard, Daily Beast, National Review, Spectator USA, and Reader’s Digest, among others. Felten’s books include Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue and The Ruling Class: Inside the Imperial Congress. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy fellow and a teaching fellow in ethics. Felten is also the author of How’s Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well and in 1990 formed the Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra, renowned for its renditions of music from the big-band era.

Based inside the Beltway, Mark Hemingway reports on the key institutions shaping public life, from lobbying groups to federal agencies to elections. His writing has appeared in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, MTV.com, and The Weekly Standard, among others. Hemingway also holds the distinction of having been used as a point of reference by Alec Baldwin’s character, Jack Donaghy, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.

The public benefits when journalists approach claims made by the government with a healthy dose of skepticism. In this spirit, reporter Aaron Maté has provided extensive coverage of corruption within federal intelligence agencies, particularly in the context of the Russia-collusion story. Also a contributor to The Nation, Maté has previously reported and produced for Democracy Now!, Vice, and Al Jazeera and written for the Toronto Star, The Intercept, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He is the host of the news show Pushback with Aaron Maté.

It is often said that ideas have consequences; in his reporting for RealClearInvestigations, John Murawski shows how. A graduate student in English literature at Indiana University when postmodernism was ascendant in the academy, he reports on how academic theories have been shaping many areas of public life, from school curricula to political rhetoric. Before joining RCI, Murawski covered artificial intelligence for the Wall Street Journal and spent 15 years as a reporter for The News & Observer of Raleigh.

With a talent for exhaustively researching and investigating stories and cultivating connections to many well-placed sources, Paul Sperry ensures that citizens have the relevant facts to understand the news. His investigative reporting for RealClearInvestigations has driven national news cycles on major issues, from the Parkland school shooting in 2018 to the Russia-gate scandal and the impeachment of President Trump. Before joining RCI, Sperry was Washington bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily. His scoops and columns have appeared in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Houston Chronicle, among other major publications. A longtime media fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Sperry is the author of many books, including Infiltration, a national bestseller about the war on terrorism inside America’s borders.

RealClearInvestigations seeks to operate according to the highest of journalistic standards. As articles editor, J. Peder Zane helps our reporters tell their stories with the clarity, precision, and fairness that their topics—and our readers—deserve. For 13 years, he was the book review editor and books columnist for the News & Observer of Raleigh, where his writing won several national honors, including the Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has also worked at the New York Times and taught writing at Duke University and Saint Augustine’s University. Zane has written two books, Off the Books: On Literature and Culture and Design in Nature (with Adrian Bejan), and he has edited two others, Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading and The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. And he is a columnist for RealClearPolitics.

Few policy areas affect the economy—indeed, the nature and future of capitalism—more than energy and the environment. As a senior fellow of the RealClearFoundation, Rupert Darwall studies and reports on issues from international climate agreements to the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in corporate governance. A renowned scholar on both sides of the Atlantic, he previously worked as an investment analyst and in corporate finance, as well as serving as a special advisor to the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. The author of two books—Green Tyranny and The Age of Global Warming—and numerous think-tank reports, Darwall has also written for the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and Daily Telegraph, among others.