Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sacramento, California
In his Viewpoint essay, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prescribes a national plan for the next president to fuel our economy with cleaner energy. His policies for California will require the state to rely increasingly on renewable energy in the coming years. “Growing up in a place as beautiful as Austria and living in a state as spectacular as California,” Schwarzenegger says, “you realize our environment is precious and that you must protect it.”

Michael Lewis
New Orleans
After he moved his family into a grand New Orleans mansion—and eventually fled from its burdens—contributing editor Michael Lewis found parallels between his experience and the national housing crunch. “The crisis is about people buying and moving into houses they can’t afford,” Lewis says. “Only after I moved into the mansion did I realize it was a curse to want it.” Lewis, now back in California, sees his ordeal as a comeuppance: “I was being punished for a vice.” Lewis wrote in the March issue about the shortcomings of the Black-Scholes financial-risk model.

Joe Pugliese
Buckingham, Pennsylvania
For this month’s cover, Joe Pugliese photographed homebuilder Bob Toll at one of Toll’s new model houses. “He walked through every single room and took audio notes on his little voice recorder,” Pugliese says. When the photographer moved a small sign from the house’s wall for a photo, Toll asked where it had gone. “I put it back,” says Pugliese, who photographed billionaire Haim Saban for the September issue.

Art Streiber
Dallas
Unlike many of the C.E.O.’s Art Streiber has photographed, the new head of Southwest Airlines, Gary Kelly, proved a flexible subject. For a feature on airline consolidation, Kelly agreed to pose with his company’s planes at Love Field in Dallas. “We got to tell the ground crew where we wanted the 737,” Streiber says gleefully. Streiber photographed Starbucks C.E.O. Howard Schultz for the July cover.

Sheelah Kolhatkar
Birmingham, Alabama
Staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar noticed a compelling asymmetry between Raymond Harbert and Philip Falcone, the masterminds of Harbinger Capital—the hedge fund with the largest outside stake in the New York Times Co. “One is a wealthy scion from the Deep South; the other grew up humbly in Minnesota,” she says. “But something clicked between them.”

Andrew Rice
Horsham, Pennsylvania
As mortgages on its McMansions sink into the mire, so have the fortunes of homebuilder Toll Brothers. Contributing editor Andrew Rice interviewed the company’s C.E.O., Bob Toll, to discuss his next move. “The future for Toll Brothers, as Toll himself will readily admit, depends on where the bottom of the market is,” Rice says. “If I knew the answer to that question, I’d be as rich as Bob Toll.” Rice’s book about Uganda and Idi Amin, The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget, will be out in February.