Steven G. Brant, 10.20.2009
Developer of sustainable local, national, and international development strategies
With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.
Eric Deggans, 10.08.2009
TV/Media critic for the St. Petersburg Times
We have not yet, as a pop culture-breathing, tabloid-fueled nation, decided how we feel about powerful older guys seducing the young women who work for them.
David Bromwich, 10.01.2009
Professor of Literature at Yale
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
Tabby Biddle, 09.29.2009
Writer
Is it possible for women today to be independent, ambitious, successful career women and at the same time still be taken care of and "protected" by a partner?
Bill Mann, 09.23.2009
TV-Radio Critic www.dcweasels.com
It's Toxic Tom DeLay, aka The Exterminator, the unctuous little weasel now making a fool of himself (again) on ABC's dismal enterprise called Dancing With The Stars.
Clarence B. Jones, 09.18.2009
Scholar in Residence, Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute at Stanford University
On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.
John R. Bohrer, 09.16.2009
Historian of 1960s American politics
The color of the President's skin does not matter to the lunatics dictating the direction of the Republican Party. I mean, it matters in that it's icing on the cake -- but they were baking regardless of all that.
Judith Ellis, 09.16.2009
Entrepreneur
The majority of people have never changed policy for good or ill. History proves this repeatedly, again and again throughout the centuries, in country after country. So, will history repeat itself yet again for ill?
Beau Friedlander, 11.14.2009
Editor-in-Chief, Air America Media
Osama bin Laden, if that was him (doesn't matter if it was just a garden-variety US-hater), pointed out that the president is vulnerable. What did he mean?
Paul Slansky, 09.28.2009
Mischa Barton says she wound up in the loony bin because her teeth hurt, Dick Cheney says Obama is -- get this -- politicizing the Justice Department, and Maureen Dowd says bloggers can be so mean.
Sean Carman, 09.21.2009
Assistant Tour Manager, the Size Queens
Mr. CHENEY: Fear is our strongest political currency. I think of the wires connected to my heart, and the cold metal case in my chest keeping me alive. How can we make people afraid?
Ellen Snortland, 09.21.2009
Women and girls need men and boys who are willing to articulate the injustice they see toward their mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.
Gershon Hepner, 09.14.2009
Physician and poet
Hillary can't win when in the Congo in a tizzy, she has to prove that she is busy...
Running the affairs of State, and not the ex-pres who's her mate...
Michael Roth, 09.12.2009
President, Wesleyan University
What makes Limbaugh's or Palin's call to right-wing shock troops any more cynical than the emails I get almost every morning from team Obama? Is cynicism merely in the eye of the beholder?
Mike Bonifer, 09.05.2009
Mike Bonifer is the author of Gamechangers -- Improvisation for Business in the Networked World
Ms. Clinton demonstrates that the new mode of leadership is just as much about generosity, and gifting a fellow player with a moment in the spotlight, as it is about seizing it for oneself.
John Wellington Ennis, 08.21.2009
Filmmaker, Activist, Some Dude
The film exposes the depths of homophobia, transcending basic shock humor to capture the face of hatred.
Merrill Markoe, 07.30.2009
Writer, filmmaker and international ambassador of good will.
All they have to do, to win over millions, is keep doing the things that they're already doing only really embrace them. Voila! It's their "new brand!"
Marissa Moss, 07.24.2009
First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?
Paul Slansky, 07.13.2009
Here's my look at the most preposterous events of the past week -- index-style.
Don McNay, 07.03.2009
Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.
Note from Don McNay
This enclosed piece was sent to me by Mike Behler, my college roommate and close friend since childhood. Mike has frequently sen...
Vickie Karp, 07.03.2009
Blogger for HuffPost and True/Slant
When does an iconic image, a shared artistic experience, or a germane public idea shift shape from private and protected to public and open to fair use?