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Rand: Vaccinated Children Got 'Profound Mental Disorders'... Christie: Parents Should Have 'Some Measure Of Choice'... Obama: Vaccinate Your Kids... CDC 'Very Concerned' About Potential For Large Measles Outbreak

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Political theorist - Founding Director "Civic Inquirer" - author of "Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen" & "Abandoned To Ourselves"

The 'Invisible Hand' Conversation Is All Wrong; Here's the One We Should Be Having

Real markets do exist. There are even real markets in fantasy objects like "derivatives." People are engaged all the time in competitive buying and selling; we haggle and adjust, trade goods, money, and contracts. But the "mainstream economist" presupposes and proselytizes about something that purports to be more than that. The disciplinary strictures guiding professional inquiry in economics require a clearly defined "object." Thus, the market appears in economic understanding as one distinct thing, an abstract but objective form of human relationship with exact boundaries that are supposed to distinguish this mode of human activity from other ones. In the tussle over the Invisible Hand, this is where the dog begins to chase its tail.

A Call for Stakeholder Activists

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We now have an imperative to address expanding economic disparity and environmental hazards, which are adding fuel to geopolitical tensions around the world, and to reassess the role of business can play in improving the world for future generations.

Marc Benioff

Chairman and CEO of Salesforce

Anti-Vaxxers, Like Drunk Drivers, Are a Danger to Us All

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These infants were counting on us, their herd, to provide them with community immunity until they were old enough to get vaccinated. It is not science's fault that these children, our fellow Americans, caught the measles. It is not their parents' fault. It is the fault of the anti-vaxxers.

Sanjeev K. Sriram

Pediatrician in Washington DC, member of the National Physicians Alliance

The Share-the-Scraps Economy

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The euphemism is the "share" economy. A more accurate term would be the "share-the-scraps" economy. New software technologies are allowing almost any job to be divided up into discrete tasks that can be parceled out to workers when they're needed, with pay determined by demand for that particular job at that particular moment.

Robert Reich

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

America Should Send More People to Prison

More than a century after debtors prisons were abolished, thousands are again behind bars because of debts. But one category of felon is free on the street. I refer, of course, to corporate criminals. Consider the case of a checkout clerk at Walmart who puts her hands in the till and walks off with a couple of hundred bucks of the company's money. That clerk could expect to face prosecution and jail. Now consider her boss, who cheats her of hundreds of dollars of pay by failing to accurately record the time she clocked in, or the overtime she worked.

Robert Kuttner

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

While PETA's Kill Rate Rises, VA Senate Bill Aims to Stop It From Slaughtering More Pets

Douglas Anthony Cooper

PETA's kill statistics for 2014 are now available. They're even uglier than last year's. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is once again poisoning over 88% of the dogs and cats entrusted into their care.

Douglas Anthony Cooper

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Is Hillary Clinton in the Bottom 3 Percent? Turning the Corner on CEO Pay

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Hillary Clinton served on the board of directors of Walmart from 1986 to 1992. She is among the thousands of prominent and successful individuals who have sat on the boards of major corporations. The reason that the rest of us should care about corporate directors is that these are the people who determine the pay of corporate CEOs.

Dean Baker

Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'

Does Mike Huckabee Really Believe Serving Gays Is Like Forcing Jews to Sell 'Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp'?

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Candidates can be vague, like Bush, or confusing and ridiculous, like Huckabee, for only so long. Soon enough they'll have to explain exactly what they mean.

Michelangelo Signorile

Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices

Medikids: A Proposal to Improve Children's Health Care, Reduce Public Program Non-Benefit Costs and Shrink Adult Health Care Outlays

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Scrapping complicated, costly, time-consuming eligibility tests would save billions. Substituting a program assuring all children their needed health care with no other eligibility condition than being a kid (that is, below a specified age) would accomplish their coverage. Let's call it Medikids.

Nancy Altman

Founding Co-director, Social Security Works

Merton Bernstein

Professor Emeritus, Washington University Law School; Founding Board Member, National Academy of Social Insurance

Progressive Labels for Regressive Practices: How Key Terms in Education Have Been Co-opted

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A number of labels that originally signified progressive ideas continue to be (mis)appropriated, their radical potential drained away, with the result that they're now invoked by supporters of "bunch o' facts" teaching or a corporate-styled, standards-and-testing model of school reform.

Alfie Kohn

Education expert

Feminism Awakens In Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation

In mid-January the popularly-esteemed, British-born Buddhist nun, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo -- the closest thing we have to a Thomas Merton figure today -- spoke before a sold-out audience at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Arts in Manhattan.

G. Roger Denson

Cultural critic, essayist and novelist published with Parkett, Art in America and Bijutsu Techo

Pilgrimage to Riyadh

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Never in the course of American diplomacy have so many travelled so far for so little. The enormous entourage of dignitaries accompanying Barack Obama to Saudi Arabia last week broke all records.

Michael Brenner

Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

What I Changed for the Sake of My Kids

I had tried many times to be a different, gentler kind of mother -- but what I've finally come to realize is that I couldn't be a gentler kind of mother until I could be a gentler kind of person with myself.

Wendy Bradford

Writer and Blogger, Mama One to Three

Black Future Month: Examining the Current State of Black Lives and Envisioning Where We Go from Here

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Beginning this Sunday February 1, Huffington Post Black Voices will kick off a month-long feature tackling 28 different cultural and political issues affecting Black lives.

Opal Tometi

Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter

Pete Carroll and the Choke Seen Around the World

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Calling it inexplicable would be kind. Calling it the worst decision in Super Bowl history would about fit.

Bruce Tenenbaum

Writer, actor and radio host

War Is the New Normal

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Pentagon insiders called it "the long war," an open-ended, perhaps unending, conflict against nations and terror networks mainly of a radical Islamist bent. Over the years, its chief characteristic became ever clearer: a Groundhog Day kind of repetition.

William J. Astore

Retired lieutenant colonel (USAF)

Fifty Shades of Meh: A Real Dominatrix Takes On the Bestseller

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There are a lot of people who would rather get a good spanking than a box of chocolates for Valentine's Day and I'm all for that. The problem I have with Fifty Shades of Grey is that it's BDSM for Dummies, it's BDSM Lite.

Mistress Trinity

Los Angeles dominatrix talking about kinky people and the kinks in life.

My Conversation With Kevin Costner

I'm joined by Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Kevin Costner. In the veteran actor's new project, Black or White, he plays a grandfather who finds himself in a custody battle over his biracial granddaughter. In this clip, Kevin describes the powerful reaction he had upon first reading the thought-provoking script.

Tavis Smiley

PBS talk show host, PRI radio host, NYT bestselling author

Obama Poll Watch -- January 2015

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An argument can be made that there are really two aspects to Obama's rise in the polls. The first is all the bold positions Obama has been staking out recently. The second, though, is the fact that more and more Americans are starting to feel better about their economic prospects.

Chris Weigant

Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Tort Law: The Muscle of Justice

The ongoing assault on the civil justice system in our country has resulted in a lessened public appreciation of the law of torts, which is one of the major pillars of our legal system and provides crucial protections for individuals. Now comes the American Museum of Tort Law.

Ralph Nader

Consumer advocate, lawyer and author

The Good Thing About the Disney Measles Outbreak

The Disney outbreak could be a game-changer for those of us trying protect children with immunizations. Because suddenly, there is a vaccine-preventable disease that is spreading like wildfire -- and could be dangerous.

Claire McCarthy, M.D.

Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Campus Sexual Assault

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The concern with campus sexual assault has begun to take on the characteristics of a panic in which government officials and school administrators have increasingly lost sight of other fundamental values that must shape the culture of institutions of higher learning.

Geoffrey R. Stone

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

Reproductive Justice Matters

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"I thought you worked on abortions so how can you also believe Black Lives Matter?" That was the question I was asked when, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I posted remarks, via social media, on the importance of honoring this anniversary.

Monica Raye Simpson

Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

Walter White for Hire: How Esurance Fumbled on Super Bowl Sunday

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This is why advertising creatives are important and why some agencies are better than others. Yes, make the star relevant, surprise people, get viewers excited. But once you get past that step, sell something that aligns with your creative.

Jason St. Angelo

Blog Editor, Huffington Post

Here's Everything You Need to Know About What's Going on With Bruce Jenner in One Sentence

No matter how many outlets -- from trashy gossip rags to (supposedly) reputable entertainment magazines -- make claims about Bruce Jenner's current "journey"...

Noah Michelson

Executive Editor, HuffPost Gay Voices

Rescuing Bambi and the Great Pit Bull Bias

Carly Loman

About a month ago, I adopted a dog. Now -- a month later -- I'm still rescuing that dog. Bambi, my beautiful two-year-old pup, is a Pit Bull mix. I was ready for the wide array of problems new rescues often have. What I was not expecting, and what I was not ready for, was The Great Pit Bull Bias.

Carly Loman

Writer, editor, and designer.

Budget Weeds That Matter: Scoring the Financial Fee as the Pigouvian Tax It Is

The financial fee is a seven basis point (seven one-hundredths of one percent) tax or fee on the roughly 100 large financial firms with assets of at least $50 billion. Yet there's an interesting and important wrinkle here: the tax is not on profits or assets, as is typically the case.

Jared Bernstein

Fmr. Obama administration economist; CNBC and MSNBC contributor

Davos 2015 Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Breakthroughs About the Brain

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One conclusion from all the panels is that because the brain is so complicated and we know very little about its actual workings, we need to catalogue it before there can be important breakthroughs. With its billions of cells and neurons, the brain is a big-data exercise, and we now have the tools needed do so.

Don Tapscott

Advisor to government and business leaders; Author, The Digital Economy, 20th Anniversary Edition

This American Heart Month, Let's Celebrate Survivors -- Like Deborah

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As February dawns, you're seeing a lot more red and more hearts. While that is partly due to Valentine's Day, it also is because -- for the 51st straight year -- the White House has designated February as American Heart Month.

Nancy Brown

CEO, American Heart Association

The 13 Best Restaurants in the South

There is no better region to eat in than the South. Am I biased? Yes. Do I care? No.

Thrillist

Everything worth caring about in food, drink, and travel

Latino Views on the 2016 GOP Field: Who Can Actually Win the Latino Vote?

We still have the better part of one year before the Iowa Caucuses and things can change, but it is very hard to imagine the potential GOP candidates moving towards a more moderate or pro-immigration reform position as they attempt to woo Republican primary voters.

Latino Decisions

Leader in Latino political opinion research

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Serbs Did Not Commit Genocide Against Croats, UN Court Rules

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'Don't Join ISIS'.. HK Protests..'Yes We Can'.. New Italy Prez.. Ukrainians Flee.. China Coal Peak Cost

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The Most-Watched Show In U.S. History

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Savannah Grills Obama.. Historic Ratings.. AJ Journalist FREE.. O'Reilly Fires Back.. YES, Maddow!

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Obama Proposes New Agency To Make Americans' Food Safer

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Obama Rejects GOP Move.. Women Pushed Out.. Christie Raises Eyebrows.. Bush's Big Problem

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A Day In The Life Of Private Equity Giant TPG

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Minnesota Lawmaker To Push To Reform Heroin Treatment

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EARLIER: How America Is Failing Its Addicts

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Mike Huckabee's Gay Marriage Stance 'Makes No F**king Sense'

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12 Super Bowl Watching Tips.. Maher On Middle Class.. WORST Party Guests.. Schumer Trolls Kendrick

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GOP Senate Takeover Pushes Women Out Of Powerful Committee Posts

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Netanyahu Calls For Gaza War Probe To Be Scrapped

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Vogue Wins Magazine Of The Year Award

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PLUS: The Complete List of Winners

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Hundreds Of Johns Arrested In Sex-Trafficking Sting

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Man Suspected Of Killing 5 Arrested At Mississippi Bus Station

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Puppy Buried Alive.. Cop Walks.. Pepper Sprayed.. Library Sex.. Massive Fire.. Human Remains.. Ricin

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Mexican Cartels Expand Offerings To Feed America's Heroin Addiction

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Staples, Office Depot Reportedly In Advanced Merger Talks

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Chipotle's New Pizza.. Best Super Bowl Ads.. Pay McD's With Hugs.. The Richest Counties.. DSK Trial

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Rand Paul Shushes A Reporter Asking About His Corporate Tax Holiday

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Secretary Of Defense Nominee Would Reconsider Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

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Suge Knight Charged With Murder After Fatal Hit And Run

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Why That 'Like A Girl' Super Bowl Ad Was So Groundbreaking

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Alabama Lawmaker Worries Same-Sex Marriages Will Be Too Expensive

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2,000 Prospective Jurors Excused From James Holmes Trial

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Roald Dahl Wrote Plea For Vaccinations After His Daughter Died Of Measles

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Uber Is About To Get Some Serious Competition

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Al-Jazeera Reporter Has Mixed Feelings On Release From Egypt Jail

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Colorado Republicans Are Trying To Undo Recent Gun Control Measures

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Obama Budget Would Allow D.C. Marijuana Legalization

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Obama Throws Down The Gauntlet With Budget Proposal

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Megyn Kelly Destroys Mike Huckabee's Sexist Comments

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Bill To Repeal Defense Of Marriage Act Gains Another Republican Co-Sponsor

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China's Communist Party Bans Believers

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