Linda Rosenberg, 03/02/12

President and CEO, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

The connection between violence and mental disorders is a myth. What's not a myth is the toll that mental health conditions take on our nation.

Bob Edgar, 03/01/12

President and CEO, Common Cause

In spreading a vile and racist "joke" about President Obama, Judge Cebull disgraced himself and demonstrated his unfitness for the bench. He has apologized, as he should, but that's not enough.

Rachel Natelson, 03/01/12

Legal Director, Service Women's Action Network

In the government's view, the public needn't concern itself with the ugly details of the epidemic of sexual violence in the military.

David Shapiro, 03/01/12

Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project

Many states have finally taken serious steps to reduce mass imprisonment, but new long-term contracts for full prisons would hamper those efforts. That would be bad news for the nation, but good news for Corrections Corporation of America.

Mark V. Vlasic, 03/01/12

Principal, Madison Law & Policy Group; Senior Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University

We cannot fight piracy with our U.S. fleet alone. Fortunately, on this issue, the world is on our side, and one of the most powerful weapons available is within our reach.

Fred Silberberg, 03/01/12

High Profile Los Angeles Divorce Attorney, Author, Media and Social Commentator and Founder of www.modernfamilybuilder.com

The recent conviction of renowned surrogacy lawyer Theresa Erickson is a disheartening reminder of the vulnerabilities faced both by hopeful parents and surrogates who choose to pursue a surrogacy agreement.

Tanya Young Williams, 02/29/12

TV Personality, Inspirational Speaker, Author, Legal Correspondent, Mother

The country has been accustomed to Nancy's ofttimes senseless yelling and screaming about every topic she covers. This time, Grace went too far with her speculations that Whitney Houston might have been murdered.

Diane Dimond, 02/29/12

Television journalist, author, syndicated columnist

Americans were once riveted by the horrific news of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Today, I believe there is another atrocity taking place inside our own American prison system.

Richard Weissbourd and Stephanie M. Jones, 02/28/12

The best way to prevent bullying -- and many other forms of cruelty and harassment -- is to encourage and enable children to care for and take responsibility for each other. Research indicates that bullying is greatly reduced in particular when children who witness bullying stand up for the victim.

Richard Buery, 02/29/12

President and CEO, The Children's Aid Society

The NYPD has just released some startling numbers: five students are arrested on average each day in NYC public schools. In the period covered, 93 percent of those arrested were black or Latino and 75 percent were male.

Erin Siegal, 02/29/12

Writer, Photographer, Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco, has not only operated since the 1980s, a decade earlier than previously reported, but has also provided hundreds of children to adoptive families in other countries.

Gabriel Lerner, 02/29/12

Senior News Editor, HuffPost Latino Voices and AOL Latino

The solution to the more generalized and daily violence in schools goes well beyond individuals. The answer must be universal, and must address serious societal problems.

Eric Lotke, 02/29/12

Senior Research Analyst, SEIU; Author, '2044'

The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it's making moves in Michigan.
But the industry doesn't always win. Resistance isn't futile.

Marina Cantacuzino, 02/29/12

Founder, The Forgiveness Project

"Who is the enemy?" asks Azim, "the 14-year-old who killed my son or societal forces that forced Tony to join a gang? There were victims at both ends of the gun."

Sandip Roy, 02/29/12

Culture editor, Firstpost.com; editor, New America Media

Yoga sells well. Sex sells even better. And sex scandals sell the best. The man in the eye of the storm this time is John Friend, the founder of the Anusara style of yoga.

John W. Whitehead, 02/28/12

Attorney and Author

Our young people are members of a lost generation -- raised in a world where life has little to no value, the almighty dollar takes precedence and values are taught by primetime sitcoms and Saturday morning cartoons.

Doug Bandow, 02/28/12

Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute

What should be done if there are no obvious battlefields and no certain combatants? Should propagandists be treated as fighters? Are any procedural protections required before a U.S. citizen can be killed?