Michael Steven Smith is a retired attorney and the founder and cohost of the radio show Law And Disorder. He has testified on the rights of Palestinians in the United States Congress and the United Nations. He's the author or editor of several books, including Lawyers for the Left (OR Books, 2018) and Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.

Zachary Sklar is best known as co-writer, with Oliver Stone, of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. He has edited numerous non-fiction books, including the number-one-bestselling On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer by Michael Ratner, Profits of War by Ari Ben-Menashe, and Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA by Ralph McGehee. He teaches screenwriting at the Harlem Dramatic Writing Workshop and is the author of a book of personal essays, The Work: A Jigsaw Memoir.