Fifty-Sixth Millionth Couple

Annabelle Gurwitch, 11.05.2009

Seeing her husband in the Oval Office cracks Michelle up ... " What are you doing here, get up from there!" she'll say. I'm so there, lady.

Michelle Obama: "A Drumbeat Of Small Changes" To Better Eating

David Becker, 11.05.2009

Author, consultant, online marketer

Go to farmers' markets and farm stands, or buy a share in a CSA. Buy a whole cow. Keep it in your freezer. Share it with your neighbor. You'll put money directly in the pocket of a farmer rather than a host of middlemen.

Fifty-Sixth Millionth Couple

Annabelle Gurwitch, 11.04.2009

The first couple has tried to preserve their "date night tradition." We have too -- maybe we can double? On our most recent date night, we couldn't actually afford to leave our bedroom.

Michelle Obama's Dress: In Defense Of Her Decision

Verena von Pfetten, 11.04.2009

Sr. Editor, Air America Media

Editor's Note: In honor of the one year anniversary of Barack Obama's election, we thought it would be fitting to re-publish this defense of Michelle ...

One Year Later: A Return to Normalcy

Lincoln Mitchell, 11.03.2009

Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia University

Th Obama normalcy is a welcome relief from eight years of the Bush administration, but it is only a start. If Obama builds on this start with true reforms, much of the hope will come back.

The Original Power Couple Emerges Again With Hillary on Top...

Phil Bronstein, 11.02.2009

Executive Vice President and Editor-at-Large, San Francisco Chronicle

The Clinton marriage is probably less of a negotiation than a long-term range war (not without genuine affection). But surveying the battlefield, it's clear that Hillary has advanced her public personality position way ahead of his.

The First Couple -- Like Us, Only Better

Wendy Sachs, 10.29.2009

Author, How She Really Does It: Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Moms

They are the quintessential power couple. Parents of young children, they are attractive, athletic, romantic, charismatic, exotic, and trying to save the world one organic garden at a time.

Big Barack Bummer

Sarah Newman, 10.29.2009

researcher and writer at TakePart

It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.

The Teacher is the Key

Esther Wojcicki, 10.24.2009

Journalism/English teacher, Palo Alto High School

It sounds like an old adage, but we desperately need to support teachers in the classroom and modify the NCLB Act, which is now up for renewal. Supporting teachers is key to our success as a nation.

Michelle Obama Fashion: Spring 2010 Predictions

Carol Han, 10.29.2009

I'll never forget the moment our First Lady, Michelle Obama, walked out on stage during her husband's Inauguration Ball wearing the now-famous sweep...

Mrs. Obama, There's a Call from Australia

Trish Kinney, 10.21.2009

Author of Silver Platter Girl and documentary filmmaker

Sexual assault and abuse victims deserve our support, encouragement, validation and dignity. In fact, it seems we could learn a lot from our friends in Australia.

Michelle Obama and I Agree: Commit to the Arts in Schools

Michael Tilson Thomas, 10.14.2009

San Francisco Symphony Music Director

With state budgets under attack, we in the arts are bracing for a familiar song: whether or not to fund arts in the schools.

Drawing a Moral Line with Faux Fashion

Meg Hemphill, 10.14.2009

Senior Editor, Blush.com

When did fashion become such a moral dilemma? Like any moral code, it's personal, and I will have to reconcile my love of inexpensive, disposable trends with my respect for designers.

Olympic Fencer Tim Morehouse on President Obama and Michelle Mock-Fencing: "Michelle would have won in a duel."

Sabine Heller, 10.13.2009

Freelance Journalist and Creative Consultant

The President and First Lady began spontaneously dueling, away from the camera's eye, during Obama's rally supporting Chicago's Olympic bid.

Demographic Science and Gay Civil Rights

Philip N. Cohen, 10.12.2009

Sociologist at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Allowing the Census Bureau to apply its scientific powers to the question of changing families is a breath of fresh air from which demographers, and the public, will ultimately benefit.

A Suggestion for Michelle Obama

Eleanor Jackson, 10.12.2009

Literary Agent

I have a suggestion for our First Lady. She should consider starting a book club for young readers.

What Michelle Obama Can Teach Us That Models Can't

Adia Colar, 10.14.2009

Publicist, Freelance Writer

When I was looking at a lot of the models from Fashion Week, I thought the same thing: She looks like girls I met in treatment. She needs to be hospitalized right now. In an inpatient facility. For months.

Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner

Marlene H. Phillips, 10.07.2009

Professional writer, political observer

First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.

An Open Letter to Mayor Daley and the Olympic Team

Hermene Hartman, 10.07.2009

One of the most significant and influential black women in American publishing

Maybe we should look within and rather than attract international visitors, let's look into our own backyards and communities and teach our youth how to be Olympians and how to compete.

Olympic Bid a No-Win Situation for Obama

Chris Prevatt, 10.05.2009

Publisher of TheLiberalOC.com, an Orange County, CA based liberal political blog.

But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.

Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and the School Children Killings

Charles Butler, 10.02.2009

Charles Butler hosts "The Other Side with Charles Butler" on The Talk of Chicago WVON 1690 AM

It seems to me that President Obama and Mayor Daley are more concerned about securing the Olympics for the city of Chicago than the safety of the CPS students in the city.