Jeffrey Selingo, who wrote this month's cover story, "The Cheating Culture," is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. He writes regularly on consumer-technology trends for the Circuits section of the New York Times and higher-education issues for the Washington Post Magazine.

Journalist Lucille Craft has been based in Tokyo for over 20 years. In "Remade in Japan," she writes about the challenges facing Japanese engineering education. She reports on Japanese and Asian affairs for PBS's "The Nightly Business Report," and the National Public Radio's "Pacific Time." She also founded and runs a nature conservation group, Kuril Island Network.

Stephen Budiansky is the author, most recently, of Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II (Viking). This month, he writes "A Revolutionary Approach" for Prism. Budiansky frequently writes about technology, history, and military affairs for a number of publications, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and American Heritage.

The writer of "A World-Class Act," Thomas K. Grose, is based in the United Kingdom, where he's lived for most of the last decade. In addition to being a longtime, regular contributor to Prism, he's written for such publications as U.S. News & World Report, TIME magazine's European edition, USA Today, and the Boston Globe. Tom's career began more than 25 years ago in Michigan, where he covered local and state politics. He also spent several years in Washington, D.C., covering Congress.

Photographer David Peterson shot this month's cover story. As a contributor to magazines like the Washington Post Magazine, TIME, Forbes, and Business Week, he enjoys the range of people he meets while working—from Suzanne Anderson, an entrepreneurial woman who started a successful, mail-order chitlins business, to first lady Laura Bush.