Craig Aaron, 8/31/11

President & CEO, Free Press

In today's Washington, corporations too often dictate policy. But what's good for AT&T; isn't good for the rest of us. With the DOJ decision, we see it's possible to challenge the most powerful corporations and make policy that actually serves the public interest.

Frances Beinecke, 8/31/11

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

In the midst of a recession spurred by rampant trading in unregulated mortgage debt, Eric Cantor repeats the canards that clean air safeguards are the "job-destroying" villains.

Scott Mendelson, 8/31/11

Film Critic

Last month, Lionsgate announced plans to indeed remake Dirty Dancing. With pretty much every beloved 80s film going under the remake knife, it was only a matter of time before the adventures of Johnny and Baby got the revamp treatment.

Robert Reich, 8/31/11

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock'

Rick Perry's fight to save America from Washington would really save blue states from subsidizing red states. Perry, it turns out, is a closet liberal.

Lisa P. Jackson, 8/31/11

EPA Administrator

It's a certainty in Washington that lobbyist talking points and inside-the-beltway speeches are going to be overblown and exaggerated. But lately, misleading claims about the EPA's work have been making their way into the mainstream debate.

Porter Gale, 8/31/11

Entrepreneur

As I leave my post at Virgin America, other than skipping the TSA line and our amazing teammates, the thing I'll miss most about the airline is seat 4C.

Susan Kaiser Greenland, 8/31/11

Author, 'The Mindful Child'

The term "Executive Function" may sound more relevant to business school than elementary school, yet it's crucial to your child's social and emotional development.

Erica Heller, 8/31/11

Author, creative consultant

Listening to Dee and my father having a conversation was like snaring front seats at the Sarcasm Olympics, with barbs and ripostes flying back and forth over the table, whizzing past your stuffed derma like torpedoes.

Phil Bronstein, 8/31/11

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

The reporter isn't and should almost never be the story. Or try hard not to be, no matter how much "personal brand" work our social media experts tell us is essential to survive the tornado of change that's tearing up our old ideas.

Robert Scheer, 8/31/11

Editor, Truthdig.com; Author, 'The Great American Stickup'

The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence.

Stacia L. Brown, 8/31/11

Writer, mother and contributor to PostBourgie.com.

On the VMAs, a woman cradled her abdomen and revealed the life growing there. By extension, unmarried mothers were inundated with presumptuous gloating.

Eric Williams, 8/31/11

Screenwriter

Kathleen Hale, 8/30/11

Sr. Correspondent, One Young Newsroom

We spoke with Ajarat Bada recently about The Missing MDG and why people are surprised she's a global activist.

Wayne Besen, 8/31/11

Founder, Truth Wins Out

To protect their "dirty" secret, these scoundrels are inciting persecution and passing discriminatory laws that lead to many forms of suicide: career, social, financial, emotional, spiritual, and actual.

Scott Janssen, 8/31/11

Scott Janssen has a Master's degree in Political Science from Western Michigan University

Nearly two months ago I had a blog posted on the Huffington Post. I had no way of knowing the ramifications of what I had written, or that it would, pardon my truthful cliché, change my life.

Arianna Huffington, 8/30/11

The response to Hurricane Irene showed that when the media devote wall-to-wall attention to something, and government officials bring a sense of urgency and ask the public to respond in kind, remarkable things can happen.

Wray Herbert, 8/31/11

Author, 'On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits'

While only a minority of toddlers are habitual bullies, this aggressive tendency appears to emerge by age one. What's more, such playroom roughness appears linked to the mothers' own problems with mood and conduct.

Richard French, 8/30/11

Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of Raise the Roof

The entire concept of exchanging community service for defaulted second mortgage debt is simply meant to provide an alternative form of currency for the struggling American homeowner.

Andrew Brandt, 8/31/11

President, The National Football Post

Michael Vick now becomes the first NFL player to sign two contracts potentially exceeding $100 million. The first one ended badly. Hopefully this deal -- and relationship with the team -- continues to be positive. It appears it has been thus far.

David Valdes Greenwood, 8/31/11

Columnist, dad, author of 'Homo Domesticus'

As the only two-dad family in an elementary school with almost 500 kids, we become the default face of same-sex parenting for some of the children and their caregivers. And that's OK -- when we filled out paperwork to adopt six years ago, we literally signed up for this.

Curtis Roosevelt, 8/31/11

Author

It is time Obama rose to expectations expressed in his inaugural address: "We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin the work of remaking America." Are you willing now to explain to the American people what the real deficit problem is?

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., 8/31/11

Neuropsychologist and author, 'Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom'

It's important to acknowledge mistakes, feel appropriate remorse and learn from them so they don't happen again. But most people keep beating themselves up way past the point of usefulness.

Robert L. Borosage, 8/30/11

President, Institute for America's Future

Half measures aren't likely to pass anyway. And worse, they constitute presidential malpractice, using the "bully pulpit" to confuse rather than educate the American people about the straits we are in. Far better simply to tell it like it is.

Jared Bernstein, 8/30/11

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The chatter of the day is whether the president's jobs plan should be big and ambitious or small and politically pragmatic.