Robert Reich, 03/26/12

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

With a bit of political jujitsu, the president could turn any defeat handed to him by the Supreme Court in the Affordable Care Act case into a victory for a single-payer healthcare system -- Medicare for all. Here's how.

Anne Sinclair, 03/26/12

Directrice éditoriale, Le Huffington Post

How might this tragedy affect the upcoming presidential election? The question is now whether the cursor of the presidential campaign has moved permanently (or only temporarily) from unemployment and economic issues to security, an issue that is always a handicap to the left.

Keli Goff, 03/27/12

Author, Commentator and Contributing Editor, TheLoop21.com

Much like Emmett Till's racially charged murder in 1955 at the age of fourteen forced our country to finally confront the brutality of Jim Crow, my hope is that Trayvon's death will spark long overdue outrage and ultimately, a movement against, the subtle racism known as profiling.

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 03/27/12

Host of 'The Breakdown,' Writer, and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

The real debt in this nation is the one that bankers owe the rest of the country. And as long as our politicians are allowed to rescue banks while ignoring consumers, it's a debt that will continue to go unpaid. And it will continue to grow.

William Anderson, MA, LMHC, 03/27/12

Licensed Psychotherapist; Creator of The Anderson Method, Therapeutic Psychogenics

"How on earth can you help me?" overweight clients would ask me when I first opened my practice. They didn't know that I had spent 25 years hopelessly out of control with my weight, morbidly obese, over 300 pounds, a chronic miserable failure at diets and exercise attempts.

Valerie Tarico, 03/27/12

Author, 'Trusting Doubt' and 'Deas and Other Imaginings'. Founder, WisdomCommons.org

On the scale of uncomfortable things women do to their bodies, an IUD insertion usually falls somewhere on the piercing-to-Brazilian end of the spectrum.

Marian Wright Edelman, 03/26/12

President, Children's Defense Fund

Most young men and women today want to work hard, but for those under 25 years old, work has often been impossible to find.

Maddie Ruud, 03/27/12

Freelance writer, Community Manager at HubPages

So you've just found out that your friend is struggling with an eating disorder. As someone with a history of personal struggle, I've used my insight to compile a list of the most common mistakes people make.

Eliot Spitzer, 03/27/12

Slate columnist; Fmr. Governor of New York

Simply passing a bill designed by the Chamber of Commerce and the banks is a cheap move to appease donors and those whose economic theories have been proven wrong at every turn over the past several decades. But that is, unfortunately, what we have come to expect.

Steven Kurlander, 03/26/12

Political and communications strategist/Columnist for Sun Sentinel and Florida Voices

Paul Ryan as a vice presidential candidate is the GOP's best hope toward repairing this nearly insurmountable damage being done on the primary campaign trail.

Dr. Frank Lipman, 03/27/12

Founder, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center

If health and wellness are your goals, skip irony, bypass sarcasm and make the conscious choice to add more joyous laughter into to your day.

Laura Paull, 03/26/12

Laura Paull is Supervising Editor for Citizen Journalism at The Huffington Post and a contributing writer to HuffPost 50.

You read the news. Or watch, or listen to it. Maybe you sometimes think: I could do that!

Thomas Frank, 03/26/12

Harper's columnist; Author, 'Pity the Billionaire'

In the twelve hapless years of the present millennium, we have looked on as three great bubbles of consensus vanity have inflated and burst, each with consequences more dire than the last. But what rankles now is our failure to come to terms with how we were played.

Deepak Chopra, 03/27/12

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

It's very good news that you are not your brain, because when your mind finds its true power, the result is healing, inspiration, insight, self-awareness, discovery, curiosity, and quantum leaps in personal growth.

Eliza Deacon, 03/27/12

The so-called "green season" in Africa is often considered a slow time in terms of wildlife, but we've always found that at it throws some surprising moments into the mix.

Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh, 03/26/12

writer, mom, and high school teacher

My three-year-old daughter began yelling the word "unicorn" over and over before communion. "Unicorn! Unicorn!" Needless to say, we finished out the service in the cry room.

Abby Huntsman, 03/26/12

PR and media professional

Today, as women represent more than 50 percent of the population, and after more than 90 years of having the right to vote, why are we not seeing an increasing number of women in politics, either running for office or in policy making?

Jared Bernstein, 03/26/12

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

In terms of public opinion, then, I think you get less insight from a poll question behind the headline -- "do you approve or disapprove of the health care law that was enacted in 2010?" -- than from specific, immediately understandable parts of the bill.

Edwin Black, 03/26/12

International investigative author

Both Beren and TAPPS were too comfortable in the way it has always been to imagine the way it could be. But both would reluctantly be brought into the new era.

Dr. Peggy Drexler, 03/26/12

Author, 'Our Fathers Ourselves. Daughters, Fathers, And The Changing American Family'

It's wonderful what dogs do for us. But the best part might be what they let us do for them. All in all, not a bad deal.

Chris Weigant, 03/26/12

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

The Republican Party's plan of creating a more competitive race by awarding proportional delegates is simply not working, at least between the two frontrunners. If none of the Republican state contests were proportional, Rick Santorum would be a lot closer to Mitt Romney right now.

Michael Pettinger, Ph.D., 03/26/12

Professor of literary and religious studies, Eugene Lang College/The New School

Fornication was one thing that both married and celibate Christians could agree upon. Broadly understood, "fornication" covered all sorts of behaviors that seemed not to fit into the other two categories. When "fornicators" talk back, it's bound to trigger a crisis for everyone.

Kevin Hasson, Heather Higgins and Gayle Trotter, 03/26/12

As ObamaCare heads towards its day in the Supreme Court, how can we make sense of competing claims about whether Congress has exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause? A bit of history might be helpful.

Nancy L. Cohen, 03/26/12

Historian and author, 'Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America'

Americans "have a constitutional right to be gay." So said Barry Goldwater, the 1964 right-wing Republican presidential candidate, in 1994. How the Republican Party has changed. Indeed, how the GOP changed goes a long way toward explaining America's national political delirium.