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The Day the Earth Stood Stupid

Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School

"Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears," ran the headline on the front page lead story in Saturday's New York Times, with this sub-head: "CO2 at Level Not Seen in Millions of Years, Portending Major Climate Changes." A headline like that -- millions of years? really? -- normally turns up in comic books and superhero movies, not in the paper of record. In fiction, what usually comes next is a montage. At breakfast tables and on street corners, in souks and igloos, in the Oval Office and at the U.N., the shocking news galvanizes humanity into action. In the real world, it was pretty much a one-day story. What does it take to grab us by the eyeballs? Sure, disaster porn is always good for ratings, but though a Superstorm Sandy may momentarily raise the specter of climate change, daily bulletins on the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere apparently aren't Nielsen enough.

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Justice Ginsburg, Roe v. Wade and Same-Sex Marriage

Geoffrey R. Stone

Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago

I am a great admirer of Justice Ginsburg. But in her criticisms of Roe v. Wade, I must dissent.Roe transformed the lives of tens of millions of women in this nation. It was the right decision... and its time had come.

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BECOMING FEARLESS

You Don't See Me, But I'm in Your Hotel Room Right Now
Cathy Youngblood

Housekeeper, Hyatt Andaz

Most blogs that people read on here are written by pundits or political analysts, but very few are written by people who scrub toilets for a living. I do. But I am also a mother, grandmother, and proud of the work I do.

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Game Of Thrones Recap, Season 3, Episode 7: Brienne Vs. The Bear

Mike Hogan

Executive Arts and Entertainment Editor, The Huffington Post Media Group

We have to start with the bear, right? That claw mark on Brienne's neck looked pretty fierce. She's gonna feel that in the morning. But I suspect the scar will always remind Jaime and Brienne of the ties that bind them.

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Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

Elliott Negin

Director of News & Commentary, Union of Concerned Scientists

Part 1: Too often the news media have provided a platform for fossil fuel industry-funded think tanks and advocacy groups to make spurious claims about global warming and renewable energy and allowed them to pass themselves off as disinterested parties promoting free markets and limited government.

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Why Go Back to Work After the Baby

Dr. Peggy Drexler

Author, research psychologist and gender scholar

So much of the advice geared towards women who choose to go back to work, focuses on how they can learn to accept the sacrifices that go along with working while raising children. I'd argue that in many cases, going back to work is not a sacrifice at all but the best decision a woman can make not only for herself, but also for her family.

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Why Everyone Should Oppose Ten Commandments In Public Schools -- Especially Religious People

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Senior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post

Every religious person should object to having the Ten Commandments in schools because you are allowing other people -- people over whom you have no control -- the responsibility of interpreting said commandments.

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The Downtoning of America

Leo W. Gerard

International President, United Steelworkers

Republicans want to kill the government that accomplished that. They want to go back toDownton Abbey days. The rich stay rich; the poor stay servants.

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Mad Men Recap: Dread Spreads Among Unsettled Characters

Maureen Ryan

TV critic, The Huffington Post

"Man With a Plan" was meant to make us feel the characters' dislocation, and all the office stuff worked. What bored me was the whole bit with Don and Sylvia in the hotel.

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IRS Tea Party

Jeff Danziger

Political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Benghazi: A Desperate GOP Attack

Sen. Barbara Boxer

U.S. Senator from California; Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Efforts to manufacture a controversy surrounding this tragedy are not only disingenuous, they are dangerous because they take our eye off the ball and divert attention from where it should be: protecting the American people and those who bravely serve our country overseas.

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Munich on the Potomac: The Republican Take-No-Prisoners Strategy -- and Obama's Conciliation

Robert Kuttner

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

The more that the Obama administration tries to meet the Republicans half way, the more extreme and implacable their demands become. Obama's term still has more than three and a half years to run and Democrats still have a 55-45 majority in the Senate, but the Republicans are treating him like the lamest of lame ducks.

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Preparing to Live in That Unknown Country: The Future

Steven Strauss

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Are Google's driverless car and Siri just the beginning for applied machine intelligence/Big Data? Automated trucks, for example, could eliminate millions of jobs. Will this type of automation be good or bad -- economically and socially? How will it transform society?

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Putting Abusers Before Animals Is Business as Usual at the HSUS

Nathan J. Winograd

Director, No Kill Advocacy Center

To those on the outside looking in, HSUS' lack of support for an animal abuse registry may seem like an anomaly. But for those on the inside, who have been laboring to end neglect, abuse and the killing of animals, it is clearly part of a recurring pattern that exemplifies the HSUS tenure of CEO Wayne Pacelle.

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3 Reasons to Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us

Raffi Cavoukian

Troubadour, Author

The "Lightweb" is known to all who use the Internet as a daily part of life. We easily connect to anyone around the world, not just via email, but through a variety of online platforms and texting applications even on the smallest personal computing devices. The "Darkweb" is there too.

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Why I Left Greece

Andreas Souvaliotis

Social Entrepreneur

Back when I was a kid my birth country wasn't the land of debt defaults and massive layoffs, but it was already a very strange and extremely individualistic society.

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Beware the Global Consequences of Further Declines in the American Middle Class

David Paul

President, Fiscal Strategies Group

If the world is to sustain the momentum of economic development that is essential to Jim Yong Kim's optimism, the companies and countries that have benefitted from expanding free trade have a collective stake in figuring out a path forward that stanches the downward spiral of the American middle class.

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Defining Yourself

Marc Vetri

Head Chef/Owner of Vetri, Osteria, Amis, Alla Spina

This week is National Stuttering Awareness Week, and I'd like to share with you one chef's personal story: mine.

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Markets, Power and Economic Policy

Jared Bernstein

Fmr. Obama administration economist; CNBC and MSNBC contributor

When economic "rents" or market failures provide economic benefits to weaker groups -- those with less stature or power in society -- efforts to eradicate such "inefficiencies" may further empower dominant elites in ways that are counterproductive for the larger society.

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May-day! TV's Big Gay Bloodbath

Derek Hartley

Co-host, 'Derek and Romaine' on SiriusXM OutQ 108; author, 'When Nightlife Falls'

Manhattan is awash with TV folks in town for the upfronts, the annual ritual in which the networks present their fall schedules to advertisers in hopes of wooing big bucks. It is too early to tell which network will be the big winner, but this year there is a clear loser: gay characters.

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I Want My Mother Back

Lisa Solod

Creator and Editor, 'Desire: Women Write About Wanting'

I want the mother back who was born sad and could not climb out of her sadness, but who managed a spectacular life. The woman who was born at the wrong time, married the wrong man and had the wrong children. The mother who gathered friends like an abundance of autumn leaves.

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The Jodi Arias Trial: Theatre of the Disturbed

Jim Moret

Chief Correspondent, 'Inside Edition'; attorney; author, 'The Last Day of My Life'

The Jodi Arias trial reminded me of the first "Trial of the Century" which I had anchored for CNN nearly two decades before. The OJ Simpson criminal trial ushered in a new era of cameras in the courtroom and TV trial addicts.

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Nhi -- Holding Up 'Half the Sky' on Two Little Feet

Stuart Macleod

Half the Sky Movement documentary unit producer

I know many people who have risen to greatness without suffering, but few of those exhibit the level of selfless altruism that I was exposed to in meeting the women and girls of Half the Sky.

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Guantanamo: It's About Us

Shannyn Moore

Just a girl from Homer, Alaska

Our country's founding principles of habeus corpus were in a direct response to the "lock them away in the Tower" abuses in Britain. We were going to be different. Oh, I know Guantanamo isn't on American soil, but our flag flies over that prison -- the same one we pledge "liberty and justice for all" to.

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The Fear Factor: How Scared Are People?

Deepak Chopra and Jim Clifton

In trying to give governments a more accurate picture of crime and fear, Gallup scientists found one survey question that gets to the heart of the matter: "Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live?"

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Snapchat Photos Can Be Undeleted and Captured: When It Matters

Larry Magid

Technology journalist

There are many reasons people use Snapchat and that, despite worries about sexting, most kids are using the app in ways that parents would probably approve of. But, it's also important for kids and adults to realize that there's no such thing content that absolutely disappears forever.

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BOTH SIDES NOW: Benghazi-Gate, Toomey-Gate and Ammo-Gate.

HuffPost Radio

Spitzer and Matalin debate if Benghazi will prove to be more Whitewater than Watergate. Is Toomey gutsy to chide the Right for opposing his bipartisan bill just to stymie Obama? Are tyrannical feds buying up ammo to undermine gun rights?

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One Goal: Decreasing Newborn and Maternal Mortality

Friends of Edna's Maternity Hospital

Funding healthcare for women and children in Somaliland

Edna Adan Ismail has literally committed everything she has to achieve one purpose: decreasing the newborn and maternal mortality rate in Somaliland and the Horn of Africa.

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The New Afterlife

Zack Harris

Sophomore, Northwestern University

Death ends a life, but not a soul. The spirit lives on. But where does Facebook enter the picture? Does a Facebook profile get buried like a body? Or does it become a living spirit?

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A Mother's Promise

Jackie Barden , Nicole Hockley , Nelba Marquez-Greene and Francine Wheeler

As "Sandy Hook Moms," we often hear the phrase "I can't imagine what you are going through." Well, please imagine it. Imagine what it's like to lose a son or daughter to gun violence and encourage your elected officials to do the same.

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What I Know About Motherhood Now That I Am a Lesbian Mom

Casey Carey-Brown

Blogger at Life With Roozle

Even with the questions and the additional pressure, we realize our daughter was born in an amazing time.

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Will Bankers at JPMorgan Chase Finally Pay for Their Misdeeds?

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Writer; host, 'The Breakdown'; Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Will California Attorney General Kamala Harris hang tough in her new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, the first to target individual bankers accused of defrauding the public? If so, it would be the first time in five years that executives at a major bank have personally paid a price for their misdeeds.

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