What comes next after the midterm elections?

Peter Berkowitz is a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center and the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a columnist for Real Clear Politics and director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the director of the State Department’s policy planning staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the secretary of state during the first Trump administration. Berkowitz’s many books include Reclaiming Liberal Education in America and Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America. He holds a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University; an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College.

Carrie Dann is managing editor of The Cook Political Report. She previously spent 18 years at NBC News, where she covered 10 national elections, including as an embedded campaign reporter during the 2008 and 2012 presidential cycles. She later led writing and research teams for election nights and presidential debates as a reporter and editor in NBC's political unit. She was nominated for an Emmy for the network's 2022 midterm election coverage and most recently has served as a senior manager overseeing NBC's Capitol Hill team. Dann is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

John Harris is co-founder of POLITICO and served as global editor-in-chief until 2026. He is also a member of the Miller Center's Governing Council. Harris began his career at The Washington Post, covering politics on the local, state, and national levels. From 1995 to 2001, he covered the Clinton White House. Later, he expanded on his reporting in a history of that presidency, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. He is also co-author, with his friend and fellow journalist Mark Halperin, of a book on presidential politics, The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. After 20 years as a reporter, he became an editor, which led him and Jim VandeHei to launch POLITICO, a publication about politics from the ground up. Harris is a graduate of Carleton College, where he studied American history.

Mike Emanuel is chief Washington correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined FNC in 1997 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent and currently serves as a co-anchor of FOX News Live. Since joining the network, Emanuel has provided coverage of every major election cycle. In July 2024, he was live on television when then-President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy, making him the first to break the news on air. He has provided live coverage of numerous critical national and international events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capital; and both impeachments of President Donald Trump. Emanuel has also interviewed top political figures, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Dick Cheney, and President George W. Bush.