ENDANGERED SPECIES

Robert Reich, 06/20/12

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

Wall Street can't have it both ways -- too big to fail, and also able to make wild bets anywhere around the world. If Wall Street banks demand a free rein overseas, the least we should demand is they be broken up here.

Rev. Al Sharpton, 06/20/12

President, National Action Network

Attempting to argue that AG Holder somehow withheld information with regards to the Fast and Furious case, Rep. Darrell Issa has engaged in a political witch hunt that proves only one thing: the hypocrisy of GOP members for personal and Party benefit.

Sigourney Weaver, 06/20/12

Academy Award nominated actress

I am thrilled to learn that the U.S. announced that we will join a number of other countries to fund an international partnership that supports ocean acidification monitoring. Ocean acidification is an urgent threat to our planet's ocean life.

Caryn Brooks, 06/20/12

Assistant Professor, Medill School, Northwestern University

Lawmakers or anyone else who wants to gauge public tolerance for politically incorrect language just needs to turn on their television. It's all there in living, colorful language.

Rory Vaden, 06/19/12

Cofounder Southwestern Consulting, New York Times bestselling author, "Take the Stairs"

While there certainly are uncontrollable parts about life, the reality is that the majority of your life is the direct result of the decisions you have or haven't made.

Scott Mendelson, 06/20/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

As the initial reviews for Pixar's Brave roll in, it's clear that the film is both pretty solid and somewhat disappointing. One of the running themes of said reviews is that the film is merely 'Dreamworks good'. If you think that's supposed to be an insult, it is.

Debra Ollivier, 06/20/12

Contributing editor and writer at large, Huff/Post50

Cloris Leachman's sense of humor has powered her through one of the most illustrious TV and film careers in the business. She recently completed three features. We caught up with Leachman, who riffed on life, miracles, and more.

Adam McKay, 06/20/12

Film director; Co-Founder, Funny or Die

There's an information blockade in America and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

Maureen Ryan, 06/19/12

TV critic, The Huffington Post

Ultimately, "The Newsroom" is the worst possible vehicle for promulgating the values and beliefs that the core characters profess. With shrill, self-righteous friends like these, journalism doesn't need enemies.

David Sable, 06/20/12

Global CEO of Y&R

One of the joys of coming to Cannes every year has been its expansion of the definition of creativity, and with it, the mind-blowing changes in technology that have let us tell richer, better stories.

Stephanie Covington Armstrong, 06/20/12

Brooklyn native, writer, and speaker

I was looking at her sexuality shift as an opportunity to finally have the one thing I'd craved my entire life: a traditional mother.

Maria Barillaro, 06/20/12

Journalist

Summer -- the trickiest season of all here in Canada. Sure, the much-deserved hot weather after a long, dreary winter really hits the spot. But for most ladies, summer means a big fat uh-oh in the hair and makeup department. Here are a few ways to avoid summer's most common beauty blunders.

Jamal Joseph, 06/18/12

Activist, Professor, Author

I was 15 years old when I walked into a Black Panther office and asked for a gun so I could kill a white man.

Alicia Keys, 06/20/12

Singer, songwriter, AIDS activist, philanthropist

I've always believed women have an incredible power to be catalysts of change for other women of the world. It is our job to fight for the issues that matter most to us, and realize how much of an impact we can have when forces unite.

David Karpf, 06/20/12

Assistant professor of political communication, George Washington University

They've called for a leap into online learning, but demonstrate no understanding of that field. They use the popular language of disruption theory without understanding any of its mechanisms.
This would make a good comedy if we were viewing it in the distant past. Instead it's a tragedy.

HRH The Prince of Wales, 06/20/12

HRH The Prince of Wales

We are sailing headlong into the sorts of storms that are the stuff of nightmares. All of our science is telling us that this is so; our economies are already reflecting the symptoms, so this is not a time when we can shy away from the enormous challenges we face.

Denice Kronau, 06/19/12

Chief Diversity Officer, Siemens AG

I often cry at work. I don't really like to, but I know that it's as much a part of who I am as my eye color.

Richard Buery and Nitzan Pelman, 06/20/12

Just weeks after President Obama awarded New York State a reform-friendly waiver to onerous federal "No Child Left Behind" education rules, for-profit education firms are threatening to strangle the new reforms.

Travis Morrison, 06/19/12

Director of Commercial Production, The Huffington Post

These are some of my memories and methods of wanting music so badly that I just reached out and grabbed it even before Napster made it easy and cool. Apparently, none of my cohort ever did any of this stuff. Either that, or they are doing that generational-amnesia thing.

Howard Fineman, 06/19/12

Editorial Director, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

The Prometheus of Greek myth was the titan who stole fire -- and a love of science and the intellect -- from the gods of Olympus. If Ol' Pro' saw this eponymous film, he might keep the fire but give the rest back.

Dr Raj Persaud and Dr Peter Bruggen, 06/20/12

A dramatic rise in the use of compulsory admissions over the last two decades does not mean that psychiatric disorders have in their nature got worse, but that the prospects for those who have them seem more bleak. This is because a progressively starved, more disorganised NHS is less effectively caring.

Bill Marriott, 06/20/12

Chairman of the Board, Marriott International

Five years ago, when I started this blog, I wasn't sure what to expect. I love writing and sharing my thoughts with family, friends and talking to associates and customers. So I figured, well I guess so, why not?

The Crimson White, 06/20/12

University of Alabama student newspaper

If Romney's political archrival isn't even willing to consider religion fair game in this election, why should you?

Paul Clolery, 06/20/12

Vice President and Editorial Director of NPT Publishing Group

For all of the ribbons on products, the commercials about doing good and the banners of support at walks and special events, American corporations finished dead last in giving back.