Azeem Ibrahim, 11/2/11

Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s International Security Program

Imran Khan has populist appeal with his stand against corruption and his criticism of US policy in Pakistan. But will he have enough support and gravitas to lead his country out of its economic slump and lack of moral direction?

Melinda Gates, 11/2/11

Co-chair, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The fact that almost 8 million children still die each year highlights the tremendous amount of work that lies ahead. How will we continue to bring this number down?

John Converse Townsend, 11/2/11

Content producer, blogger, born-again runner

Until recently, the privatization of humanity's most valuable resource was a Third World problem. Now the idea and the economics behind it are spreading to more developed countries like China, Russia, Canada, and even the United States.

Lawrence Weschler, 11/1/11

Author; Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU

In Uganda, corruption often arises out of desperation. In America, more typically, its wellsprings are greed, pure and simple. And it's hard to decide which is the more dismaying, the more disfiguring, the more disgusting.

Haggai Carmon, 11/1/11

International Attorney

Ekaterina "Katia" Zatuliveter insists that she is not a Russian spy operating in the UK. MI5, the British internal intelligence service insists that she was working for Russian intelligence and wants her deported from the UK.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 11/1/11

Former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco

Perhaps Syrians may be asking for the impossible from the West, but they deserve what is realistically possible and that is considerably more than what they are getting now.

Jean-François Julliard, 11/1/11

Secretary general, Reporters Without Borders

The world over, repressive governments censor or blackout the press and the Internet to shield itself from the forces of social change. Disturbing then to see the same thing happening in the United States.

Alon Ben-Meir, 11/1/11

Senior Fellow, NYU's Center for Global Affairs

No Arab country is ready for rapid and comprehensive democratic reforms without an orderly and purposeful transitional period that would be accompanied (if not preceded) by economic development programs.

Nathan Gardels and Nicolas Berggruen, 11/1/11

Once again the G-20 must act to prevent a devastating slide into a deep contraction, if not depression, and avoid a damaging retreat into protectionism and competitive devaluation.

Robert Reich, 11/1/11

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock'

Greek PM George Papandreou decided in favor of democracy yesterday when he announced a national referendum on the draconian budget cuts Europe and the IMF are demanding from Greece in return for bailing it out.

Brian Dooley, 11/1/11

Director, Human Rights Defenders

The Bahraini government's inept handling of its students is a great example of why the kingdom is increasingly seen as a pariah state.

Robert D. Blackwill and Walter B. Slocombe, 11/1/11

Israel's substantial contributions to U.S. interests are an underappreciated aspect of this relationship and deserve equal billing to shared values and historical responsibility as rationales for American support of Israel.

MJ Rosenberg, 10/31/11

Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network

It was bound to happen sooner or later. At some point, both Obama and Congress would be faced with a clear choice between U.S. national interests and the demands made by Netanyahu and his powerful lobby.

Jamal Abdi, 11/1/11

Policy Director, National Iranian American Council

Obama was supposed to end the Bush policy and take us off of the trajectory to war with Iran, but with a little scolding from Congress and the pro-war lobbies, it now looks like the Barack Obama of 2008 has been put on time out.

Sandip Roy, 11/1/11

Culture Editor, Firstpost.com, Editor, New America Media

America's pique is not surprising. And Obama probably had no easy way out. But the real message it was sending UNESCO, Palestine and the 107 countries that voted for the UNESCO membership was the alacrity with which it took that decision.

Daniel Wagner, 11/1/11

Managing Director, Country Risk Solutions

The beauty of Europe is its rich diversity of language and cultures, so why are all these politicians and overpaid, unelected bureaucrats trying to force some ghastly vision 'of such' on us all?

Philip Jennings, 11/1/11

General Secretary, UNI Global Union

Eighty years ago, the Tin Pan Alley classic "Buddy, Have You Got a Dime?" was the crisis music of its time. Today the dollars have gone to the investment bankers who got off scot free, and there are no dimes for the 99 percent.