<b>Brian Michael Till</b> is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and a correspondent for <i>The</i> <i>Atlantic</i>. He is the author of <i>Conversations with Power</i>. His columns have appeared in the<i> Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Las Vegas Sun, </i>the<i> Los Angeles Daily News, Newsday, The Oregonian, The Philadelphia Inquirer, </i>the<i> San Francisco Chronicle, </i>and the<i> St. Petersburg Times</i>. He has been a guest on NPR's <i>Talk of the Nation</i> and has worked with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and the Treatment Action Campaign in… Cape Town, South Africa. He lives in Washington, D.C.