Come, ye armchair generals, statesmen, and oil barons. The Smoke-Filled Room covers issues of politics, business, and international affairs with all the predictability of a 12-gauge. Speculators, sycophants, aspiring monopolists and other fashionable degenerates are always welcome.

Leave no cigar un-chomped. 

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Editor:
Wyatt McKean has been a senior editor of The Dartmouth Independent since 2008. He is a Government major and has studied abroad at the London School of Economics. His interests include history, economics, arts and architecture.

Senior Writer:
Kevin Karp is TDI's chief international correspondent, having graduated from Dartmouth last spring. He has worked in the British Parliament and is a graduate student in History at Cambridge University.

Writers:
Charles Buker is a Government major and Spanish minor who has lived in Buenos Aires and studied abroad in Madrid. This summer, he worked in the office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Financial Officer. He specializes in Spanish and Latin American affairs as well as American politics and constitutional law.

John Chen is a Government and History major who specializes in military studies and East Asian foreign policy.

Timothy Kessler is a Government major working on a senior honors thesis about Identitarian Realism.

John Lee is a columnist for The Malaysian Insider and was co-editor of Where Is Justice?, a book about the brutal politics of the Malaysian government. Recently, Malaysian authorities began forcibly removing his book from stores; he writes about the experience in TDI's fall print issue.

Laura Logan is a junior at the American University in Cairo specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her many dispatches from Cairo and Jerusalem have included stories of stone-hurling teenagers, fugitive pedophiles, and detainment at the Ben Gurion Airport. 

David Mainiero is the Executive Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a History major with a specialty in Iranian affairs.

My Time With Senator Kennedy, by Christopher Silberman

Night and Fog, by Kevin Karp

Two Ships in the Night, by David Mainiero

Permanent Revival, by Kevin Karp

Ground Shift, by Wyatt McKean