Jedediah Purdy, 1/20/12

Professor, Duke Law School; Author, 'A Tolerable Anarchy'

This is how we've learned to talk about our economy: as a matter of personal virtue and vice, from the overdrawn consumer to the one-percenter with the fifteen percent tax rate and some senators' private numbers in his iPhone.

Nick Penniman and Josh Silver, 1/20/12

The GOP primary debates feature politicians and the debate moderators in a deep state of denial about the most burning issue facing the country: the fact that our elections have become auctions.

Christy Turlington Burns, 1/20/12

Model, writer, entrepreneur, spokesperson, advocate, and filmmaker

Haiti's rates are on par with some of the world's highest burdened countries and ranks it as one of the most risky places in the western hemisphere for poor women to give birth.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Robert Weissman, 1/20/12

We face a choice. Americans can let Citizens United remain the law of the land, or we can have a functioning democracy. We can't have both.

Emma, The Emma Edition, 1/20/12

16-year-old NYC-based fashion blogger

Just because I love dressing like I'm Lizzie McGuire with an injection of 1960's mod doesn't mean that society has the right to assume I am not interested in guy's opinions.

Steve Clemons, 1/20/12

Publisher, 'The Washington Note'

Hispanic leaders involved in trying to get Romney to talk with them and engage Hispanic issues are now issuing alerts that they are not at all happy being ignored.

Tey Meadow, J.D., Ph.D., 1/20/12

Sociologist and Cotsen Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows

The media's singular focus on LGBTQ youth suicides creates a deadly echo chamber. The repetitive tale about our collective failure to address the pain felt by many LGBTQ youth doesn't translate into inspiration for the kids who are still here.

Roy Speckhardt, 1/20/12

Executive Director, American Humanist Association

Since polling place influences the vote, governments and election boards should do all they can to find neutral voting locations. And it would seem very unlikely that churches would be chosen if neutrality were the aim.

Dr. Andrew Weil, 1/20/12

Founder and director, The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Hormesis is a little-known term with huge implications. It refers to a fascinating phenomenon: a favorable biological reaction to low doses of chemical toxins, radiation or some other form of stress that is damaging, even fatal, in higher doses.

Mike Lux, 1/20/12

Co-founder and CEO, Progressive Strategies

As Bob Dylan would put it, the times they are a-changin'. There's a storm outside and it's raging, baby. We really are shaking their windows and rattling their walls. The establishment is getting very, very nervous.

Marian Wright Edelman, 1/20/12

President, Children's Defense Fund

Alabama has passed the toughest immigration enforcement law in the country. Now children born in the U.S.A., American citizens, are living in fear. Some children are afraid to go to school.

Dennis Santiago, 1/20/12

CEO of Institutional Risk Analytics

The FDIC closed it's first banks of 2012 today. A total of three insitutions were shuttered by the regulator.

James Marshall Crotty, 1/20/12

Forbes Education Columnist; Author, How to Talk American; Director, Crotty's KidsCo-founder, Monk Magazine

If Obama's entertaining performance last night at the Apollo tells me anything, it's Amateur Night in Republican-land, and they are likely to be yanked off the stage come November by Sandman Sim's hook. Prove me wrong.

Margie Omero, 1/19/12

Democratic pollster, president of Momentum Analysis

The latest New York Times/CBS poll shows that all the remaining Republican candidates are unpopular with voters nationally. No wonder Republican primary voters continue to be dissatisfied with their choices.

Jared Bernstein, 1/20/12

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

I fear that until we deal with the underlying structural factors driving inequality, we're going to see it go ever higher.

Rep. David Price, 1/20/12

U.S. Representative From North Carolina's Fourth District

Money is not speech, and corporations are not people. The true measure of our success is the well-being of each American, not the wealthy's stock market payouts or corporate profit margins.

Jesse Kornbluth, 1/20/12

Editor of HeadButler.com

That was the thing about Etta: She had total credibility. She lived the blues, and you'd best believe she was going to tell you about them, and in the bluntest (and thus, most poetic) way possible.

Paul Abrams, 1/20/12

Last person on Earth not on Facebook

When it comes to policy and culture, Gingrich rails against anything that smacks of a "European" influence. Well, almost everything.

Christopher Caen, 1/20/12

Writer

The Gold Dust Lounge is one of the venerable old watering holes downtown, which used to be littered with them. Now, like many other cities, downtown is turning into a glorified mall, and the saloon is being forced out for yet another clothing store.

Jeff Schweitzer, 1/20/12

Scientist; Fmr. White House Senior Policy Analyst

When the fact of climate change becomes as evident to doubters as the orbit of the earth, perhaps we will learn from this colossal mistake of elevating opinion to the status of fact. If we are lucky enough, we will have another chance.

Eric X. Li, 1/20/12

Venture capitalist in Shanghai; Chairman, Chunqiu Institute

China's size and its centralized governance have enabled the creation of a parallel Internet universe connected to and separate from the one outside. China is pursuing a distinctive response to the Internet.

Shirin Sadeghi, 1/20/12

Host, New America Now; former producer, the BBC and Al Jazeera

Those stories you hear about the foreign troops who pillaged and pilfered Iraq, the seat of ancient Mesopotamia -- those stories don't do justice to what we have learned from the tale of Nigel Ely. He's taught us things that only Saddam's buttock could have imparted.

Arianna Huffington, 1/19/12

I'm delighted to announce the launch of Global Motherhood, a new section within HuffPost Impact dedicated to the health and well being of mothers and babies around the world, and sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.

Diana Nyad, 1/20/12

Long Distance Swimmer, Journalist, Broadcaster

After winning 4 X Games gold medals, Sarah was primed to fulfill her long-term vision and win Olympic gold in Sochi, Russia, 2014. That dream is not to be fulfilled.