Sen. Jeff Merkley, 04/03/12

U.S. Senator from Oregon

Big banks are formulating a host of arguments -- wild, off the mark arguments -- aimed at dismantling the Volcker Rule firewall between loan-making, customer-serving banks and high-risk hedge funds.

William Lazonick, 04/03/12

Director, University of Massachusetts Center for Industrial Competitiveness

Yet properly governed, corporations can be run for the 99 percent. In fact, that's still the case in many successful economies. The truth is that it's possible to take back the corporations for the 99 percent in the U.S. if we can really wrap our heads around the problem and the solutions.

Scott Mendelson, 04/03/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

Titanic is still a splendidly powerful bit of moviemaking, one of the best films of the 1990s, and one of the best pure blockbusters of our time.

Kitty Stryker, 04/03/12

Sex worker, activist with SWOP, blogger and general rabble-rouser

As a sex worker myself, having worked both in real-life situations and online pornography, I have found the web to be incredibly conducive to setting up a business that I control.

John Feffer, 04/03/12

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

Here are the five things Obama could say to confound his right-wing critics and his liberal debunkers to prove that he has effectively promoted progressive causes at a global level.

Remy M. Maisel, 04/03/12

Amateur media critic; Undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University

If we learned anything from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, it's that when America's favorite anchors ask their audience to jump, the audience immediately launches itself into the air as one, and worries about the purpose of that great leap later.

Amy Siskind, 04/03/12

President, The New Agenda

The problem of gender imbalance is endemic and our leadership is failing us. Desperately failing us. And here's the startling fact behind the numbers: unless we take action, gender imbalance will only get worse!

Tom Engelhardt, 04/03/12

Editor, TomDispatch.com

In these last years, while so many Americans were foreclosed upon or had their homes go "underwater" and the construction industry went to hell, the intelligence housing bubble just continued to grow.

Scott Walters, 04/03/12

Director, Center for Rural Arts Development and Leadership Education

It makes sense to expect that the most important aspects of Mike Daisey's monologue be able to stand up to scrutiny, but to excerpt a theatre piece, a work of testimonia, a memoir and suddenly expect it to stand up to journalistic standards is naïve at best and dishonest at worst.

Cara Santa Maria, 03/30/12

Science correspondent, Huffington Post; editor, Talk Nerdy to Me

I spoke to Dr. Thomas Heaton to get a clearer picture of what early earthquake warning systems are and how they can save lives.

Robert Naiman, 04/03/12

Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy

How could we get a clean shot at what the administration is not doing to move the ball forward on Iran diplomacy? We can demand the reversal of the "no contact" policy for U.S. diplomats.

Mark I. Pinsky, 04/02/12

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

Led by Messianic Jews -- who accept Jesus as their savior, and want others to do the same -- the dinner services are aimed at gullible, lonely or separated Jews with no other place to observe the normally home-based holiday.

Bill Moyers, 04/03/12

Managing Editor, Moyers & Company

Larry Magid, 04/03/12

Technology journalist

Thank you FTC for outlining a broad approach to transparency when it comes to accessing our own data. Now it's time for Congress to enact legislation that truly benefits consumers, not just those who profit from our information.

Franklin Graham, 04/03/12

President/CEO, Samaritan’s Purse, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Recently, I hosted 20 representatives of the NAACP for lunch at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C. I came away with a better understanding of our differences and a commitment to work together on important challenges in our country.

David Paul, 04/03/12

President, Fiscal Strategies Group

President Obama and Speaker Boehner understood the parameters of a solution and came remarkably close to a deal. The solutions are not difficult to imagine, just the willingness of our leaders to embrace them, and their followers to follow.

Wray Herbert, 04/03/12

Author, 'On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits'

So are you a dualist? Most scientists reject the notion that the mind has an immaterial substance that's unlike the physical world. Instead, they argue that the mind somehow emerges from the squishy matter called the brain -- a philosophy called physicalism.

Amanda Eliasch, 04/03/12

Damien Hirst is the most important, expensive bloodthirsty artist in the world and Wednesday his show opens at the Tate Gallery in London and runs through September.

Alaa Al Aswany, 04/03/12

Best-selling Egyptian author and columnist

Write the constitution as you wish, but it will remain your constitution. You will not be able to impose it on the people. The revolution will continue until it frees Egypt of despotism and restores authority to the people, regardless of the deal between the Brotherhood and the military.

J.D. Rothman, 04/03/12

Blogger, www.TheNeuroticParent.com

These new Ivy rejects are far from slackers. They're incredible kids with impressive resumes -- 2,350+ SATs, straight As in their 16 APs, debate champions, flute soloists and MVPs.

Geoffrey Dunn, 04/03/12

Author, 'The Lies of Sarah Palin'

While Sarah Palin admitted that her performance in the Couric interviews in 2008 "had let the team down," she never acknowledged that she had failed to prepare for them.

Jordan Schultz, 04/03/12

The Huffington Post's sports columnist, The Schultz Report

With all due respect to this vastly overachieving Kansas team, the Wildcats proved Monday night that sometimes the world is unfair, and that talent sometimes trumps heart.

Neill Franklin, 04/03/12

Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)

While federal agents were using a battering ram, a sledgehammer and power saws to break into a business that complies with state and local law and pays taxes, a gunman was murdering seven people at Oikos University, just three-tenths of a mile away.

Miles Mogulescu, 04/03/12

Entertainment attorney, writer, and political activist

From the standpoint of constitutional law, overturning the Affordable Care Act could put dangerous constitutional restraints on Congress's ability to forge national solutions to national economic problems. That's a dangerous precedent that goes far beyond health care policy.