Lottery buyers line up to pay a tax
Editor’s Note: Scott Drenkard is an economist at the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based tax research organization. Story highlights The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is at an estimated $640 million Scott…
Celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi’s victory — ease sanctions on Myanmar
Editor’s Note: Suzanne DiMaggio is vice president of global policy programs at the Asia Society (Follow her on Twitter). Priscilla Clapp is a retired minister-counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service…
JetBlue passengers reacted. Would you?
Editor’s Note: Jason Marsh is the founding editor-in-chief of the online magazine, Greater Good, published by the Greater Good Science Center. The center focuses on the “science of a meaningful…
Searching for the why behind rising autism rate
Editor’s Note: Catherine Lord is the director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at N.Y.-Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated medical schools, Columbia University College of Physicians and…
Opinion: World must not forget Syria’s missing activists
Editor’s Note: Paul Conroy is a British photographer and cameraman who has worked in troublespots around the world. While working in Syria earlier this year for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper,…
Obama was too timid on health care
Editor’s Note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of “Jimmy Carter” (Times Books) and of the new book “Governing…
Three new rules for U.S. presidents
Editor’s Note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and a 2011 Online Journalism…
Hookup culture debases women | CNN
Editor’s Note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.” He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985…
We cannot fail the women of Arab Spring
Editor’s Note: Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, she was the first woman speaker of the House…
Apple has an obligation to help solve America’s problems
Editor’s Note: Clyde Prestowitz is the founder and president of Economic Strategy Institute. A former counselor to the commerce secretary in the Reagan administration, Prestowitz is the author of “The…