James Boyce, 11.18.2009
Founder Common Sense NMS, dotPAC
Working with The Rainforest Alliance, we helped create The Rainforest NewsLadder. Every couple of weeks I will check in to see what's buzzing, and provide you with the latest news and media.
David Halperin, 11.11.2009
It's hard to see how abandoning the Mideast conflict -- potentially sparking exactly the kind of violence we hope to avoid -- could be in our interests. And yet, that's what Thomas Friedman proposes we do.
Harvey Wasserman, 10.29.2009
Author of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth
No one contends that Tom Friedman has the influence that Walter Cronkite did, but could Friedman's anti-Afghanistan editorial mark a similar war-time shift in thinking?
Mike Ragogna, 10.15.2009
music biz vet, entertainment writer
For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin, 10.07.2009
Co-editors of CenteredPolitics.com
This year's best political play may turn out to be the Republican policy of "just say no," because it puts maximum pressure on Democrats to keep their two wings flapping in the same direction.
Frank Schaeffer, 10.06.2009
New York Times best-selling author
Other people, besides former evangelicals like me, are finally starting to realize that there is a serious problem facing America. What are we going to do about the haters?
David Bromwich, 11.15.2009
Professor of Literature at Yale
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
John Knefel, 09.29.2009
John Knefel is a comedian and writer based out of Brooklyn, NY.
It sure sounds like the media is congealing around a new meme like the unthinking wad of lard that they are.
Harvey Wasserman, 09.23.2009
Author of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth
"Real men" -- and women -- know we will never get to a green-powered Earth by trying to ride a dead radioactive horse -- even if it's French.
Rick Horowitz, 09.25.2009
Satirist and syndicated columnist
The thing about beach books -- or even "beach books" -- isn't the total tonnage of the entire pile. It's the glow of the glorious possibilities.
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle, 09.24.2009
Biologists
As long as we remain a bioilliterate populace of which only the wealthiest 0.1% can afford to have an expert interpret the hieroglyphics, and only lions and other celebrity species attract our interest, then we will continue to turn the dazzling diversity of life into cannon fodder.
David Sirota, 09.03.2009
Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist
The real story in the Olbermann-O'Reilly feud is the heavy-handed intervention by the CEO of General Electric effectively forcing MSNBC's news team off a crucially important set of stories.
Gershon Hepner, 09.01.2009
Physician and poet
When Kobe Bryant scores 70 points, we are in awe. When Tiger Woods wins by 15 strokes, we are in awe. But when a man our own age and size whips the world's best -- who are half his age -- we identify
Lynda Resnick, 07.30.2009
Author, Rubies in the Orchard
Tom Friedman, who spoke informally with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson, is not only one of the world's greatest journalists, he is also a marketing genius.
Bill Chameides, 07.11.2009
Dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, member of the National Academy of Sciences, TheGreenGrok.com
Any international climate treaty that omits an eventual cap on China's emissions will be a treaty that fails to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference on the climate.
Yvette Kantrow, 06.28.2009
Executive editor for The Deal.
"I just wasn't paying attention."
"It never even occurred to me to mention it."
What do these two statements have in common? They were both uttered ...
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort, 10.04.2009
Author of The Monfort Plan
Thomas Friedman wrote his best selling book The World is Flat in 2006. The New York Times columnist observed the part of globalization fundamentally p...
Brandon Friedman, 06.20.2009
Author of The War I Always Wanted and Vice Chair of VoteVets.org
For all his bawling on TV about how much he loves his country, you'd think a guy like Glenn Beck would be eager to do whatever is necessary to combat terrorism. Same for Michelle Malkin.
Kerry Trueman, 06.19.2009
Co-founder of EatingLiberally.org
What's the difference between an overly bubbly housing market and sugary carbonated beverages? Both appeal to our infantile desire for instant gratification.
Greg Mitchell, 06.01.2009
Author, "Why Obama Won"
On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared an end to major military operations in Iraq. Here's a look at how one newspaper covered the Bush declaration and its immediate aftermath.
Tom Huston, 05.31.2009
Senior Associate Editor, EnlightenNext magazine
Can we finally get over ourselves and start participating in life so fully, so unreservedly, that we remove any doubt as to where we really stand?