Young women text, drink, and smoke at a bar in Portland, Oregon.
Drinking Age? We Need a Texting Age
Ashleigh Banfield is co-anchor of Courtside on IN SESSION, and hosts Disorder in the Court with Ashleigh Banfield. She previously served as a correspondent and anchor for NBC News and MSNBC.
Teenage America's obsession with sexting may have driven one Ohio girl to suicide. Ashleigh Banfield says the only way to stop the underage porn phenomenon is to prosecute offenders with zeal.
A Recession Is Just What Teens Need
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
My generation, long spoiled, is finally learning to pinch pennies. And that might just be the economy's best hope.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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