SAVIOR OF DETROIT?

Noam Chomsky, 04/28/12

Institute Professor emeritus, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

May Day started here, but then became an international day in support of American workers who were being subjected to brutal violence and judicial punishment. If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Howard Fineman, 04/27/12

Editorial Director, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

With all due respect to slow jammin', it's too slow to define the campaign. Rather, it is the instantaneous micro-to-global combat of Twitter that is setting the pace (insanely fast) and practice (cutthroat attack) of 2012.

Meg Jay, 04/19/12

Clinical Psychologist

Your 20s are a time when the things you do -- and the things you don't do -- will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. Here are 9 things that so many twentysomethings do that mess up their lives.

Paul Yeager, 04/28/12

Meteorologist and Author of 'Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities'

One large-scale factor contributing to a greater intensity of hurricane seasons in recent years is a warm phase of sea-surface temperatures. With warm water being the fuel for hurricanes, this phase produces more, and more intense, hurricanes.

Sheila C. Johnson, 04/27/12

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Filmmaker

In 1958, winger Willie O'Ree became the first African American athlete to play in the NHL. Which team was responsible for breaking the color barrier? The Boston Bruins.

Wendy Fontaine, 04/28/12

Freelance Writer and Graduate Student

I had worked as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade, interviewing presidential candidates and reality TV stars. I had a college degree and a retirement account. Never once had I thought I would need help with something as basic as buying food for my kid.

James Zogby, 04/28/12

President, Arab American Institute; author, 'Arab Voices'

A battered Romney held on a short leash by his party's right wing should be good news for President Obama, but with the electorate as deeply divided as it is, national polls are telling a different story.

Rabbi Shais Taub, 04/27/12

Rabbi, social observer, philosopher, writer.

There is nothing inherently meritorious about refraining from physical intimacy. What is good and holy and healthy is for a person to be a sexual being but to do so within the context of marriage.

Lisa Arends, 04/28/12

Math teacher and wellness coach

I was with my husband for 16 years. Sixteen good years. Little did I know a tsunami was forming beneath the placid surface of our marriage.

Mark Morford, 04/28/12

Columnist, SFGate; Author, 'The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism'

Until recently, I had not the slightest clue as to what American nuns did all day. Delivering meals to the poor. Knitting giant crucifix cozies. No idea. Until now. Until I discovered that a great many American nuns have been actively and frequently pissing off the Vatican.

Chuck Gomez, 04/28/12

Playwright, former Emmy Award-winning television news journalist

Did the actors follow the script too closely? Actors Anailin de la Rua de la Torre and Javier Nunez Florian disappeared after their plane landed in Miami last week. They appear to have defected. Was life imitating art?

Ann Brenoff, 04/28/12

Senior Writer, The Huffington Post

I think the world can be divided into two groups of people: Those who burn their candles and those, like me, who don't burn them because, well, then they'd be gone.

Robert Stavins, 04/28/12

Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program

Since when are low prices considered to be a problem? To understand what's going on, we need to remind ourselves of the purpose (and promise) of a cap-and-trade regime, and then look at what's been happening in the respective markets.

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, 04/27/12

Senior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post

Religion was meant to be a positive force in our lives by instilling moral values and a vision of social justice. It was never meant to pit "us" against "them."

Robert Reich, 04/27/12

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

What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. It's almost as if the GOP can't help itself.

Sec. Arne Duncan, 04/27/12

U.S. Secretary of Education

As we work to get the economy back on track, no one is suggesting it would be a good idea to double interest rates on credit cards or home mortgages. Why then do some believe it's a good idea to double interest rates for students?

Susan Orlins, 04/27/12

Writer, Confessionsofaworrywart.com

Shouldn't the mother be the one to soak up her little girl's I-did-it grin as she crosses the finish line? Or was this one of those role reversals dealt to us by the passing years?

Wadah Khanfar, 04/27/12

Journalist; President, Sharq Forum

The Egyptian people have regained their voice. They have begun to express their views and choices in the great debate that runs through the entire length and breadth of the country, extending well beyond the issue of the presidency to political, social and economic life.

Jared Bernstein, 04/27/12

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

If the economy were a person, here's how I'd describe his travails in recent years. For far too long, he binged on junk food, with no regard for the impact of such dietary habits on his system.

Vicky Kuperman, 04/27/12

Comedian & Writer

Here are five signs you know you don't want children.

Jason Mraz, 04/27/12

Singer songwriter

The proof is all around us. A billion people live without water. More than that live in extreme poverty. War hasn't found its resolve. And the seasons are only getting stranger.

Scott Mendelson, 04/27/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

In a film like The Avengers, which brings together strands of several prior pictures into a mostly cohesive whole, it is arguably inevitable that individual pieces will end up working better than the sum of its parts.

Soraya Chemaly, 04/27/12

Feminist, Satirist and Media Critic

Tomorrow, thousands of women and men will participate in marches and rallies for women's rights in 45 states and the District of Columbia. American women need to be recognized as full citizens. Yes, women in this country.

Lawrence M. Krauss, 04/27/12

Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University; Author, 'A Universe From Nothing'

How can a universe full of galaxies and stars, and planets and people, including philosophers, arise naturally from an initial condition in which none of these objects -- no particles, no space, and perhaps no time -- may have existed?