Jared Bernstein, 11/30/11

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Why has income inequality gone up so much and why does it matter? Let's start with facts of the case.

Bob Edgar, 11/30/11

President and CEO, Common Cause

His career has periodically mixed politics with academics, so it's no surprise that Newt Gingrich is now giving official Washington a lesson on the absurd weakness of our lobbying laws.

Susan Blumenthal, M.D., 11/30/11

Public Health Editor at HuffPost and Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General

The announcement of a roadmap to achieve an AIDS-free generation is a fitting way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the reporting of the first cases of AIDS in 1981.

Cara Santa Maria, 11/30/11

Science Correspondent, Huffington Post; Editor, Talk Nerdy to Me

Have you ever wondered why otherwise intelligent people believe things that don't seem to be grounded in reality or reason?

Douglas A. Kysar, 11/30/11

Interim Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

The most critical obstacle to progress on climate change is the inability of the United States to make any credible commitments to the rest of the world, given the upcoming presidential election and a chronically dysfunctional Congress.

Tara Solomon, 11/30/11

Miami-based writer and pop-culturist

This year, Art Basel's 10th anniversary year, we want to go everywhere and Basel so hard that we wind up on Monday morning, post-deadline of course, in a quiet room where a nice lady brings us juice.

Lee Woodruff, 11/30/11

Writer

The type of quality medical rehabilitation care that Rep. Gabby Giffords needed -- and the type of care that you or your loved ones may need in the future -- is at significant risk due to current proposals in Washington proposed as part of deficit reduction.

Scott Mendelson, 11/30/11

Film Critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

Young Adult is a surprisingly potent and insightful dramedy, all the more effective for its understated nature and its off-the-cuff black comedy construction.

Cindy McCain, 11/30/11

Member of the Board of Directors, Eastern Congo Initiative

The most recent election has shown that the Congolese people want their voices heard and that they overwhelmingly desire good governance, security, economic and social development.

Susan Liddy, M.A., PCC, CPCC, 11/30/11

CEO, Susan Liddy International

Did you know that when you respond emotionally and behaviorally the same way, over and over again to the same situations, that your brain is actually wired to automatically create those responses -- good or bad?

Janie Campbell, 11/30/11

Editor, Huffington Post Miami

Miami is a place others can visit and never begin to grasp fully. For those of us who live here, it's lifelong learning in a city layered by the most fascinating forces ever to punch a seething metropolitan area out of a sleepy beach town.

Abraham H. Foxman, 11/30/11

National Director of the Anti-Defamation League

There are many reasons why the recent spate of domestic legislation in Israel -- regarding non-governmental organizations, the media, Israel as a Jewish State, the Supreme Court -- is disturbing.

Belinda Parmar, 11/30/11

Founder, Lady Geek and Lady Geek TV

When it comes to careers, boys are five times more likely to go into technology. Why is this? At what point are we losing our girl geeks to other industries?

Bill McKibben, 11/30/11

Author of a dozen books, including 'The End of Nature' and 'Deep Economy'

In the ongoing fight to keep tarsands oil in the ground, no group has been more vocal, more consistent, and more effective than native and indigenous groups on both sides of the border.

Bree Maresca-Kramer, 11/30/11

Relationship Expert & Pop Culture Analyst

To have a break up you must first be in a relationship. Well, there certainly was one between Kim Kardashian and her fans.

Dr. Michael J. Breus, 11/30/11

Clinical Psychologist; Board Certified Sleep Specialist

A message to night owls: There's news that your bedtime -- and those late-night snacks -- may be preventing you from dropping those stubborn extra pounds.

Monika Mitchell, 11/30/11

CEO, Good Business International Inc.

How is it possible in a democratic republic that the Federal Reserve spends trillions of our dollars without our permission, indebts us for generations to come without even a vote by Congress?

Regan Hofmann, 11/30/11

Editor-in-chief, POZ magazine

As we count down to World AIDS Day, I remain optimistic that the man I elected with great hope in my heart will step up and demonstrate one of the best of all American virtues: our unmatched humanitarian largesse.

George Lakoff, 11/30/11

Author, The Political Mind, Moral Politics, Don't Think of an Elephant!

Just as the Tea Party gained power, the Occupy Movement can. The Occupy movement has raised awareness of a great many of America's real issues and has organized supporters across the country. Next comes electoral power.

Stanley Rogouski, 11/30/11

Photojournalist

The "1%" have revealed themselves as shrill ideologues willing to scapegoat America's most vulnerable people in order to defeat a political movement that threatens them.

Robert Klitzman, M.D., 11/30/11

This week, we celebrate World AIDS Day -- and for once, there is a lot of good news... Thus, it is an important time to reflect on how far we have come, and where we have left to go.

Robert Creamer, 11/30/11

Political organizer, strategist, author, partner Democracy Partners

Bad enough that the "do-nothing Republican Congress" is doing everything it can to oppose President Obama's agenda to create jobs. Taking $1,500 out of the pockets of everyday Americans gets downright personal.

Michael Sigman, 11/30/11

Writer/editor, Music Publisher

Romney and his fellow GOP hopefuls can take comfort in new research indicating that on the pressing issues of the day, their coveted conservative cohort seeks nothing more than to know nothing.

Xavier L. Suarez, 11/30/11

Miami-Dade County Commissioner

Mayor Gimenez allowed the county commissioners to make some small decisions, but he has not yielded an inch on the major features of his budget. The resounding mandate given by the voters that we streamline a bloated bureaucracy was ignored.