John Seiler brings extensive experience and insight into his role. He has been press secretary to California state Senator John Moorlach since 2017. Before that he was editorial manager and writer at the Orange County Register since 1987, following a stint as editorial writer at the Washington Times. He also was managing editor for California state government-focused CalWatchdog from 2010-2015. His pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News, Policy Review, Human Events and Chronicles. And he has written political economic analyses for Laffer Associates since 2002. He is a former Russian linguist for the US Army and a graduate of Hillsdale College.

Patrick Lawrence is a writer and columnist. He has published five books and is now at work on his sixth. He served as a correspondent abroad for many years and is also an essayist, editor, and critic. Lawrence has taught at universities in the U.S. and abroad and lectures widely. He currently produces weekly commentaries for a variety of publications, primarily on foreign affairs and the media. Lawrence was a correspondent and subsequently a columnist overseas for more than 25 years, chiefly for the honorable and now defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.

Kenneth Rapoza is a columnist for Forbes, covering business, finance and some geopolitics regarding emerging markets, especially, Brazil, Russia, India and China. Ken often travels abroad and has visited or lived in: Brazil, Russia, India, Colombia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Ken is a former Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones reporter and former Polyconomics contributor. His work has also appeared in the Nation, Salon and USA Today. He has appeared on FoxNewsBusiness and live broadcasts on NPR and the BBC. He is a graduate of Antioch College