Dr. Peggy Drexler

Author, research psychologist and gender scholar

While men seem to welcome the existence of dual income households, and marriages marked by (mostly) shared responsibilities, there's a hitch: The guys still want to be the primary breadwinner. That is, she can bring home the bacon, so long as it's not all of it.

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Writer; host, 'The Breakdown'; Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Debtors' Prison should be required reading for anyone who influences economic policy in this country. Open-minded readers should come away convinced that we need to reject the economics of despair for an economics of hope.

Bruce Kushnick

Executive Director, New Networks Institute

The incumbent phone companies were supposed to compete with each other for wireline/broadband services as each merger to make these companies larger was based on commitments to compete out of region. Now it's all one, big, happy family.

Ian Thompson

Legislative Representative, Washington Legislative Office, ACLU

ENDA's religious exemption, which would extend far beyond churches, synagogues and mosques, effectively gives a stamp of legitimacy to anti-LGBT discrimination that our civil rights laws have never given to discrimination based on an individual's race, sex, national origin, age or disability.

Peter Dreier

E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College

You've probably never of her, but Frances Kelsey may have saved your life. Sometimes it takes a scandal to get the public's attention, but it also helps to have a courageous figure who takes on big business to protect public health and safety.

Jonathan Valania

Journalist

A study recently found that the Roberts Court is the most business-friendly of any court in at least the last 65 years. More alarmingly, the top two justices most likely to vote in favor of big business -- out of all justices since 1946 -- are Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Gene Marks

Small business management columnist, author, speaker, and business owner

We know you've been doing it for years now, so why hide anymore? Instead, just tell the public what you're doing is yet another service you're providing, particularly if you concentrate on those groups that really make our lives worse.

Les Leopold

Author, "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour" (Wiley 2013)

In short, what would happen to our overall feeling of self-worth if a major movement emerged to take on the Wall Street plutocrats and their Washington enablers? What if unemployed workers were part of a mass movement for jobs and justice as they were in the 1930s?

Mary Manning Cleveland

Adjunct Professor of Environmental Economics, Columbia University

As most of us know, sales taxes are "regressive." That is, when sales taxes are "passed on," they fall harder on poorer customers than on richer ones.

David Seiden

Leading authority on state and local tax

By now, most people have heard that last week the U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act. If passed by the House of Representatives and signed by the president, the Act will enable states to force internet retailers to collect sales taxes on sales made to in-state residents.

Carol Hartsell

Senior Comedy Editor, The Huffington Post

You hold in your hands a letter. Not an email, not a Facebook message, not a DM. An actual, physical missive. It is an epistle, of the ilk our fathers and their fathers once wrote. In short, this is a real "brick and mortar" affair you are looking at.

Terry Connelly

Dean emeritus, Ageno School of Business - Golden Gate University

Although this sort of Washington summer may be just as unpleasant for the country as D.C. humidity, it could be a boon for the economy, at least under the Hippocratic principle of "first, do no harm."

Robin Lewis

CEO, The Robin Report

Without the elements of trust and fairness, democracy and free market capitalism cannot work. And poll after consumer poll reveals that a greater percentage than not believes our government and the business and financial sectors are lacking both.

Jeff Hindenach

Director of Content, NextAdvisor.com

The nation has crippling credit card debt to the tune of almost $800 billion. This is obviously not a minor problem, but a financial epidemic. Americans are paying so much in fees and penalties each year that we may never dig ourselves out.

Todd R. Miller

CEO and founder, gwabbit.com. Author of "Going Virtual"

The end of The Office is also an allegory for the real business world, as the sun begins to set on traditional brick-and-mortar offices. As Dunder Mifflin packs its cubicles, it may be time for real businesses to take a hard look at their own, as the tradition of a Monday-to-Friday commute to the office is becoming obsolete.

Andy Kroll

Staff writer, Mother Jones magazine

Simply tallying Adelson's wins and losses -- or the Koch brothers', or George Soros's, or any other mega-donors' -- misses the bigger point.

David Macaray

Labor columnist, playwright and author

The question: How do we insure that Bangladesh textile factories are safe? The answer: You get yourself an incorruptible, on-site champion of industrial safety.