Menachem Rosensaft, 09/27/12

Professor of law and son of Holocaust survivors

Especially in light of a new heavy-handed $6.5 million ad campaign by the Republican Jewish Coalition, all voters who are concerned about President Obama's position on Iran or continued U.S. support for Israel should -- no, must -- read the address he delivered to the UN General Assembly.

Howard Fineman, 09/27/12

Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group

You couldn't make up the impressive biography of Richard Carmona of Tucson, Ariz. Hollywood would never buy it. But Carmona is real -- and one reason why Republicans are losing what once looked like a good shot at retaking the U.S. Senate.

Joan Walsh, 09/27/12

Author, 'What's the Matter With White People?" Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was'

No matter what's going on in the world, the right can find a cultural issue that will get the left to fight itself, to atomize into little groups, and to give voice to factions that frighten Americans on the sidelines -- often, the left-out white middle and working class -- and the country winds up the worse for it.

Arianna Huffington, 09/25/12

Today I'm delighted to announce the launch of Impact X, our newest section in the HuffPost Impact family, which will highlight the change-making power when humanity and technology come together.

Traci L. Slatton, 09/27/12

Author

Our group meandered into the next room to hear about brutal capos who oversaw the prisoners, about twelve starving men sleeping in plank-board bunks built for three, about floggings and pole hangings.

Premal Shah, 09/27/12

President of Kiva.org

Not only will tuition loans funded by Kiva lenders foster promising new leaders and help to lift families and communities out of poverty, they will also provide a much needed "demonstration effect."

Michael Ian Black, 09/27/12

Author, "You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations"

How I wish I had Mitt Romney's talent. Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. Where my admiration for Mitt Romney ends is at Owen Roberts International Airport, two miles southeast of George Town, the picturesque capital of Grand Cayman Island.

Sheila Quirke, 09/27/12

Mary Tyler Mom

I put on blue rubber gloves to protect my skin from the poison I stirred into her pudding and ice cream. God help me. It is heart-wrenching to spoon-feed your daughter poison that you know, at its optimum, will provide a few more weeks to her cruelly young life. But that is precisely what we did.

Mike Edwards and Danny Oppenheimer, 09/27/12

The Electoral College is a cancerous tumor on American democracy. It doesn't matter if we all get one vote when some votes are worth more than others. It is past time that we got rid it.

Rep. Ed Markey, 09/27/12

U.S. Representative, Seventh Congressional District of Massachusetts; Ranking Member, House Natural Resources Committee

While powerful, the polluter playbook is no match for the truth and those brave enough to shout it from the rooftops. That is the lesson of Rachel Carson. Her courage inspired citizens to demand change, even as polluters tried to silence the author of Silent Spring.

Jack Healey, 09/26/12

Founder, Human Rights Action Center

Most people think the people suffering in human rights situations are older people. They are not. They are young, sometimes very young. These folk need your help. Boys and girls need to protect one another, here and there. Come to the portal. Enjoy it.

Nancy Redd, 09/27/12

Host/Producer, HuffPost Live

There's so much sadness and killing and anger in the world today that when I see something a little different in a good way, something like Adjah's efforts, I want to share with the world -- despite the (perhaps over-hyped?) controversy that surrounds it.

Rebecca Solnit, 09/27/12

Author, 'A Paradise Built in Hell'

Every four years we hear that in presidential elections we are asked to choose the lesser of two evils. Now, this is not an analysis or an insight; it is a cliché, and a very tired one.

Robert Koehler, 09/27/12

Syndicated writer

The war on terror, the testing ground for drone technology, may be no more than the threshold of a brand new, barely imagined form of human hell: hell that buzzes like a wasp. How long before the technology comes home to our own neighborhoods?

Naomi Wolf, 09/26/12

Bestselling author, 'The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot'

What do I take home from my week in the UK, talking about something as simple and valuable as the new science of female arousal and orgasm? It seems that female sexuality is still such a difficult and contested issue even to think about in mainstream media spaces.

Jason Stanford, 09/27/12

Democratic consultant and writer

Mitt Romney's gaffes keep pumping air under Barack Obama's convention bounce, and Republicans say that the same polls that liberals complained about in 2004 are, you guessed it, "skewed."

Linda Bergthold, 09/27/12

Health policy consultant

In the New England Journal of Medicine, both President Obama and Governor Romney offer statements revealing their vision for the future of health care. Finally we have a definitive statement of Romney's vision for the future. Actually -- not really.

Randy Neece, 09/27/12

Creator, producer and director of TV and education documentaries

One of the reasons I wrote the book in the first place was to give readers a look inside a thirty-year marriage between two men and help answer the question: What really defines a marriage?

Avril Lavigne, 09/27/12

Singer/songwriter, philanthropist

When I created the Avril Lavigne Foundation in 2010, one of my main goals was to bring laughter and fun into the lives of sick or disabled children and youth. I told my fans that my birthday wish was for them to support the Foundation in any way they could.

Bruce Ackerman, 09/27/12

Professor of law and political science, Yale; Author 'The Decline and Fall of the American Republic'

Citizenship, Barack Obama recently explained, is "a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy." But when we move from words to reality, the institutions that have fostered American citizenship are dead or dying.

Matthew Basso, 09/27/12

President, Iron Lotus Personal Training; Founder, DBX3 Functional Fat Loss

This is the first of a series of blogs that will keep you injury-free while running. This post will focus on mobility and flexibility, and by the time I've completed the series, you'll be ready to take on your next marathon or your average jog.

Cherie Blair, 09/27/12

Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

We will all gain through the input of able women helping their communities reach better decisions, not replacing men but working alongside them. We have to continue to develop opportunities. We have to lift unfair barriers which stop people from making the most of their potential.

Scott Mendelson, 09/27/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

Rian Johnson's Looper is less an out-and-out original work as a hodgepodge made up from bits and pieces from other iconic science fiction stories stirred into a relatively tasty stew.

Jesse Kornbluth, 09/27/12

Editor of HeadButler.com