Dylan Ratigan, 11/4/11

Host, MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show'; Author, soon to be released 'Greedy Bastards'

If belief in the integrity of the Supreme Court frays, the Court's power will fray as well. This is in no one's interest. We need a system of justice, but a system of justice that serves all of us.

Van Jones, 11/4/11

President, RebuildtheDream.com; Author of NY Times bestseller, The Green-Collar Economy

Tomorrow, tens of thousands of people all over the country will leave the big banks and move their money to community banks and credit unions, where people remember things like customer service and loyalty.

Marian Wright Edelman, 11/4/11

President, Children's Defense Fund

We must not balance the budget on the backs of our babies who need health care and nutrition, quality education and good jobs to build a strong America. Children did not cause the budget deficit and they must not be sacrificed to help solve it.

Cristina Page, 11/4/11

Author, 'How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America'

Justin Bieber serves as an allegory for the way we treat American teens: leading them to temptation, unprotected and unprepared, and expecting more of them than we do of ourselves.

Lisa Belkin, 11/4/11

The Huffington Post’s Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family.

Creativity is born of chaos. Could online gaming be the coffee house of our children's generation?

William Bradley, 11/4/11

Political Analyst, NewWestNotes.com

Wednesday's general strike in Oakland pointed up some of the promise, and the problems, of the loose-knit Occupy Wall Street movement.

Soraya Chemaly, 11/4/11

Creator, Poog: A Goop Spoof

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

Nancy Keenan, 11/4/11

President, NARAL

Anti-choice extremists never take their eye off the prize: making abortion illegal in the United States. Right now, they have their sights set on Mississippi.

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 11/4/11

Consultant, writer and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Plato's aversion to democracy is shared by a lot of powerful people these days. But politicians, especially those whose party derives its name from the democratic principle, would be better off remembering another Greek philosopher: Aristotle.

Brock Cohen, 11/4/11

Freelance writer, humorist, educator

Not surprisingly, gaps in literacy lead to wholesale academic failure -- a pattern that repeats itself over generations. The conditions of poverty that beset families hinder literacy and academic growth; conversely, academic failure spawns more poverty -- and so on.

Miles Mogulescu, 11/4/11

Entertainment attorney, writer, and political activist

It's time to ask whether the organizational forms and tactics which birthed the #Occupy mass protests are adequate to building a long-term movement which can change the country and the world.

Erica Heller, 11/4/11

Author, 'Yossarian Slept Here, When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22'

My father was not Hannibal Lecter crossed with Mussolini, as a few have apparently thought I've depicted him in my book. His teasing sometimes hit the wrong note, but I think half the time he said things simply because they were too clever to suppress.

Mark I. Pinsky, 11/4/11

Author, "A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed"

Unquestionably, there is a dark, fundamentalist side to American evangelicalism. They plot to use their political influence to push the U.S. in a theocratic direction. If they could. The thing is, they can't.

Michael B. Keegan, 11/4/11

President, People For the American Way

Whatever our differences we should all be able to agree that Hitler was not sent by God to convert Jews to Christianity; that Catholicism, Mormonism and Islam, like all religions, are protected by the Constitution; and that Oprah Winfrey is not the Antichrist.

Dr. Andrew Weil, 11/4/11

Founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

The dramatic rise in depression diagnoses over the last two decades is a great challenge to modern medicine. The reasons for the increase are complex, but one important theory deserves special consideration.

Rachel Kane, 11/4/11

WTForever21.com

It would appear Forever 21 is too sexy for Facebook! Yesterday I wrote a post about Forever 21′s close up camel toe snap shots. We spoke of flesh, bits, arousal factors. A good time was had by all. Well, it turns out all except Facebook.

Cara Santa Maria, 11/4/11

Science Correspondent, The Huffington Post; Editor, Talk Nerdy to Me

Even though biologists have yet to discover a gay gene, from a scientific perspective, genetic, hormonal, and structural-anatomical data show that homosexuality is definitely rooted in our biology.

Larry Strauss, 11/4/11

Veteran high school English teacher, basketball coach, novelist

I'm pretty sure that if students at a suburban high school ever found themselves in the kind of danger in which South L.A. students routinely find themselves some state of emergency would be declared.

Robert Reich, 11/4/11

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

Until we reverse the trend toward inequality, the economy can't be revived. But the biggest question in our nation's capital right now has nothing to do with any of this.

Jared Bernstein, 11/4/11

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

As long as consumers remain strapped, it's hard for me to see why corporations sitting on trillions in cash reserves would invest here as opposed to expanding, emerging economies elsewhere.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 11/3/11

French philosopher and writer

There is sharia, and then there is sharia. And before going on and on about regression and glaciation, we would do well to know what we're talking about.

David Lindsay, 11/4/11

Managing Editor, Global Health Frontline News

15-year old David Okot seemed angry, and he had every right to be. He suffers from a mysterious condition that preys only on children.

Deepak Chopra, 11/4/11

Author, 'War of the Worldviews'; Founder, The Chopra Foundation

Deepak discusses simple habits that support a healthy lifestyle in accord with one's biological rhythms.

Rep. Nita Lowey, 11/4/11

U.S. Representative for New York's 18th congressional district

At a time when the federal government should be focused like a laser beam on job-creating investments and targeted tax relief, the majority takes a pass. They choose instead to rehash standard attacks on women's health.