REID SEES THE LIGHT

Greta Van Susteren, 05/11/12

Host of Fox News' 'On the Record with Greta Van Susteren'

Everyone (yes, everyone!) wanted that interview with President Obama this week (I would have loved it). Now the jealous ones who did not get it show they are petty by taking swipes at Robin and how she got the interview.

Michael Takiff, 05/11/12

Author, 'A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him'

I agree with those who argue that a 65-year-old man should not be judged on actions he took as a teenager. We've all done stupid, callous things during our youth. But that 65-year-old man does not deserve a pass for the way he's behaving now.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary, 05/11/12

Author, screenwriter, wife dominatrix, mom butler

The woman on the cover, while as stunningly beautiful as the real Jamie, doesn't reflect the inclusive, intelligent, loving, nurturing, non-judgmental woman I know.

Priyamvada Natarajan, 05/11/12

Cosmologist, Yale University

The reality of how science works is in sharp contrast to the way most Americans seem to see it--perhaps as definitive, time-limited, and based on speculation or assertion.

Marian Wright Edelman, 05/11/12

President, Children's Defense Fund

Programs like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps, and transitional housing are lifelines that work when people fall on hard times. We need to preserve them. But that's not what the Ryan "reconciliation budget" just passed by the House of Representatives would do.

Marlo Thomas, 05/11/12

Award-winning actress, author, and activist

Before midday, Wednesday, May 8th, America was a different place. Millions of our people in all states were living in torment. They'd not only spent their young lives hiding who they were, they'd grown up to discover they had to hide who they loved.

Carl Jeffers, 05/11/12

Television political commentator, radio talk show host, lecturer, political analyst

Coming in the middle of a presidential campaign, the moral leadership aspect of same sex marriage will have to take a back seat to the discussion of the political impact aspect of the issue.

Noel Irwin Hentschel, 05/11/12

Chairman, CEO and co-Founder, AmericanTours International

In a world more focused on material gain and personal status, let us highlight the fruits of spiritual growth and shared virtues.

Alan Thicke, 05/11/12

Actor, humorist, and author, 'How to Raise Kids Who Won't Hate You'

Alas, it takes a lot of balls to play golf the way I do.

Bill McKibben, 05/11/12

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

But the debate continues -- in fact, House leaders are busily trying to fasten automatic approval of the Keystone Pipeline, the biggest straw into the pipelines yet, onto a must-pass transportation bill.

Helen Croydon, 05/11/12

Author, Journalist and Broadcaster

This week I was interviewing long-term happy bachelors for a women's magazine on the rise of singledom. When I say long-term, I mean willingly long-term. Not the spluttering, nervous, perspiring ones who hang around speed dating events desperate to find a girlfriend.

Mike Lux, 05/11/12

Partner, Democracy Partners

Romney went from being the big bully in his high school, to being the cavalier dad who made the family dog ride on top of the car even when it was making him sick, to being the "vulture capitalist" at Bain Capital.

Robert Reich, 05/11/12

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

What just happened at J.P. Morgan reveals how fragile and opaque the banking system continues to be, why Glass-Steagall must be resurrected, and why the Dallas Fed's recent recommendation that Wall Street's giant banks be broken up should be heeded.

Simon Johnson, 05/11/12

MIT professor; Co-author, '13 Bankers' and 'White House Burning'; Columnist on fiscal affairs

In light of JP Morgan's stunning losses on derivatives, announced yesterday but with the full scope of total potential losses still not yet clear (and not yet determined), Jamie Dimon and his company do not look like any kind of appealing role model.

Raffi Cavoukian, 05/11/12

Singer

I told Pete I'd come to say thank you for all that he had given me over the years. For the way his songs had stirred me and got me singing them. For the example of courage in his life that inspired me and filled me with awe.

Lisa Wolfe, 05/11/12

Journalist and Writer

On this day of celebrating mothers for their love and hard work, how many of us are secretly (or not so secretly) dreading the brunch or dinner we're required to have with our mother-in-law?

Laura Prudom, 05/10/12

Associate Television Editor, The Huffington Post

There was a whole lot of "meh" during this week's "American Idol" performance show, and it should've been fairly obvious from the start just who the endangered contestant was. But, because the voting public is a fickle and capricious monster, I'm perennially braced for a shocking result.

John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher, 05/11/12

Obama's open approval of same sex marriage represents a huge change in popular attitudes towards the issue. But does this mean greater social stigma will be directed towards those who are against changing the definition of traditional marriage?

David Katz, M.D., 05/11/12

Director, Yale Prevention Research Center

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

Adam Levin, 05/11/12

Founder, Credit.com and former director NJ Division of Consumer Affairs

The time has come for the re-creation of AmeriCorps, and the rethinking of the government role in borrowing for education. Specifically, the country needs to address three major problems.

Honoree Corder, 05/11/12

Leader, player-coach, entrepreneur, author, speaker, mentor

I broke down in tears within two weeks of my split, but not because I was getting divorced. No, it was sex, or more specifically, the prospect of having sex with a new person (people!) that sent me over the edge.

Saru Jayaraman, 05/11/12

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

This Mother's Day, wherever you take your mom, ask the manager at the end of the meal about the hourly wage of servers and bussers in the restaurant before tips, and whether they provide paid sick days.

Stuart Firestein, 05/11/12

Professor and chair of the department of biological sciences at Columbia University

So what is the way in? How do we get to appreciate and understand and participate in science without having to collect a few PhDs? Though it may seem a curious perspective, I suggest ignorance.

Dionna Ford, 05/11/12

Blogger, CodeNameMama.com

My son is no more dependent on me because he has nursed for four years than the child who never breastfed.