Matthieu Pigasse, 03/09/12

CEO, Lazard Financial Advisory in France at Lazard Ltd.

We are living through a turning point, in great confusion. Nothing of what seemed obvious yesterday is evident today. Nor are there any signs to tell us what future certainties will be.

Eliza Dushku, 03/09/12

Actress, Albanian citizen

This heightened awareness of the 26-year trail of wreckage left by Kony is a good thing. And now, more than ever before, countless people are asking how to help the victims and not only how to help catch Kony.

Arwa Damon, 03/09/12

CNN's Beirut correspondent

What is happening inside Syria is unlike any conflict I've covered in my career.

Robert Reich, 03/09/12

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

Jobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Barack Obama on the economy and to rob Mitt Romney of the issue he'd prefer to be talking about. But they're not coming back fast enough to significantly reduce the nation's jobs backlog.

Nathan Gardels, 03/09/12

Editor, NPQ, Global Services of Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media

In our age, the advent of social networks and the transparency of shared networks challenge all hierarchies from monopoly of the mainstream media to professional knowledge protected by credentials, such as doctors, to dictators protected by force.

Arianna Huffington, 03/08/12

The media world's fetishization of social media has reached idol-worshipping proportions. Our media culture is locked in the Perpetual Now, constantly chasing ephemeral scoops that last only seconds and that most often don't matter in the first place, even for the brief moment that they're "exclusive."

Patrick Morrison, 03/09/12

Slavic Studies student, Wayne State University

One of the questions I get most about my Jeopardy experience is, "What's Alex Trebek like, and why doesn't he have a mustache anymore?" I confess that I struggle to answer both questions with any degree of certainty.

Amy Siskind, 03/09/12

President, The New Agenda

President Obama spoke out and did his part. Now we must demand a national conversation about the war of words and it's impact on women and girls. It's not the president's responsibility to police the airwaves -- that's our job.

Jamal Abdi, 03/09/12

Policy Director, National Iranian American Council

We're at a rare moment in which both the United States and Iran have unclenched their fists and appear ready for real talks. But we've seen how opportunities have been sabotaged in the past by political opportunism, ultimatums and intransigence from factions on each side.

James Peron, 03/09/12

President, Moorfield Storey Institute

Catholic Voices, an über organization in the United Kingdom that says their agenda is "putting the Church's case in the public square," has a dubious opinion poll that allegedly proves that "70% [are] against redefining marriage." The problem is that the poll is manipulated.

Mohamed A. El-Erian, 03/09/12

CEO and co-CIO, PIMCO

Education for girls around the world is not only a form of offense, including providing a critical foundation for higher education, workforce development and greater opportunities. It is also a form of defense, to counter teenage pregnancy, underage marriage and domestic violence.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D., 03/09/12

Public Health Editor at HuffPost and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General

Food insecurity in America is a major public health concern that has increased significantly during the recent economic recession. The upcoming presidential election has put a spotlight on the increase in SNAP enrollment in recent years.

Dennis Santiago, 03/09/12

CEO of Institutional Risk Analytics

The FDIC closed the second bank of 2012 to fail with no acquirer today. South Michigan Avenue became the focus of Friday evening activities to shutter the $71 million institution.

Jason Linkins, 03/08/12

Editor, Eat the Press

Times have just changed for today's legislators, who have to wake up every morning to the news that their approval ratings hover one or two points ahead of people who desecrate graves for fun.

Traci Lords, 03/09/12

Actress, singer, songwriter

It looks like some of the critics aren't being much kinder to Disney's $250 million version of Princess of Mars than they were to the 99 cent adaptation I acted in previously.

Travis Rejman, 03/09/12

Executive Director of the Goldin Institute

With millions of views so far this week, the super viral Kony 2012 video is clearly raising awareness of the horrors of the LRA in Uganda. But is the Kony 2012 campaign a good idea?

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, 03/09/12

Former Governor of Michigan, Faculty at UC Berkeley, Host of "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm" on Current TV

Between Rush Limbaugh, Governor McDonnell and the U.S. House of Representatives, it's been an ugly week in the war on women. So what can you do about this?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi, 03/09/12

Associate Editor, HuffPost Women

Here are some alcohol campaigns targeting women, evaluated based on their understanding of what women want.

Jared Bernstein, 03/09/12

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

We're not adding jobs at breakneck speed, for sure, and we're still repairing the damage done by the great recession to the living standards of millions. But this month's report makes another addition to a solid and improving trend.

Martha Burk, 03/09/12

Money Editor, Ms. magazine; director, Corporate Accountability Project, National Council of Women's Organizations

Do a quick Google search on "women and financial advice" and you get 133 million hits. "Women and investment advice" yields 64 million. Wow. That's a lot of advice. Do we really need that much?

Richard J. Davidson, 03/09/12

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

I was always fascinated by variations among people in how they respond to emotional events in their environment. This strikes me as the most important characteristic of emotion--we are all different. The unique emotional fingerprint we all have is what I call Emotional Style.

Kevin Dowd, 03/09/12

Adjunct scholar, Cato Institute

The most likely outcome of a Koch takeover is that Cato would be eviscerated, the brand would be destroyed and the Kochs would take over an empty shell -- in short, the outcome would be a catastrophe, and even the winners would gain nothing.

Nicole Skibola, 03/09/12

Social Innovation Strategist

We need to think about gender parity as not equal expenditure by an employer on male and female employees, but equal treatment as to the physiological needs of each sex.

Ruggy Joesten, 03/09/12

Community Director, Yelp San Francisco

Chances are you've seen the finely-coiffed Ben Flajnik lately, gracing the pages of every celebrity rag in publication. Want the skinny (dip) on his favorite haunts in the city? Yours truly investigates.