The Lunch Hour with Federal Newswire

Margaret Byfield was raised on a large cow calf operation in central Nevada. She became actively involved in the property rights movement after her parents, Wayne and Jean Hage, filed Hage v. United States in the Federal Court of Claims in 1991.She launched Stewards of the Range in 1992 to help landowners facing similar issues which merged into American Stewards of Liberty in 2009. She continues to serve as Executive Director. The organization has been in front of some of the most successful property rights victories since its formation.

Bob Levey is a prize-winning journalist who has covered the Washington scene since the Johnson Administration. 

Shoshana Weissmann manages R Street’s social media, email marketing and other digital assets. She also works on occupational licensing reform, social media regulatory policy, Section 230 and other issues, and has written for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, is a former State Department diplomat responsible for formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters.

Zach Greenberg is Senior Program Officer, Student Organizations, Campus Rights Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Lyn Ulbricht is a political activist and well-known advocate for constitutional protections, individual freedom and privacy. She is also the mother of Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a double life sentence without parole for all non-violent charges, based on his role in the Silk Road website.

Paul Poast is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a foreign affairs columnist for World Politics Review.

Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Director of Research and Education at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, and a BA from the University of St. Thomas (Houston). 

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, Internet taxation, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation.

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, is the Director, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute. He has authored the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013), Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009, and now, Return of the God Hypothesis (HarperOne, 2021).