Saturday, February 27, 2010

The human side of immigration

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With controversy over immigrants and immigration escalating, and the debate surrounding both the ability of undocumented immigrants to pursu...

COLLEGE $PORT$

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Should college athletes be paid to play?  Are big name coaches worth the millions they receive?  And who really benefits from the astronomic...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

The mental game

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As sports become more competitive, as we learn new ways to push the body to its dynamic limits, as faster, higher, stronger becomes a given,...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Procrastination

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If there is a dysfunction symptomatic of our times, perhaps it is procrastination. It often separates those who succeed from those who don...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

One happy customer...

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If we are to reignite the economy, bring back jobs and really recover from 2009, we're going to only do it based on the success of Ameri...
Monday, February 15, 2010

American Journalism, DOA?

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Newspapers are closing, bureaus are shuttering, whole areas of state, local and federal government are operating with no press coverage. At ...

The road most traveled

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Roads are the infrastructure by which advanced civilizations have always been able to connect with each other.  From the ancient spice route...

The Suburban future?

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Unlike much of the west, America's population continues to grow.  But will the demographic makeup of this growth be good for America?  S...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Iraq...the worst is yet to come

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Washington Post special military correspondent Thomas Ricks  predicts that the war in Iraq is likely to last at least another five to ten ye...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Autobiography of an Execution

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While executions in the U.S. are considered public policy, they are carried out in private; often far, far away from public scrutiny.  In Te...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

The world in a grain of sand

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We live in a world of ever increasing complexity.  Our economy, our social networks, the very fabric of our lives seem at times random and u...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Do Not Enter

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Whether we are discussing the war on terrorism, the onslaught of modern technology, or the rightward shift of the Supreme Court, we continue...
Monday, February 1, 2010

The Inheritance

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While the Bush Administration focused almost entirely on Iraq, the world moved on. Places and situations that were dangerous because more d...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Make a decision!

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What happens in our brain when we try to make decisions? Why is decision making effortless for some and others struggle just to decide what ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

The Empathic Civilization

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The health care debate is but one example of the difficulty of enacting any kind of social or political change.  The Supreme Court saw to i...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Making decisions in a Dangerous World

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Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001.  Is the world simply going to fast and is the r...
Monday, January 18, 2010

The Globalization of Mental Illness

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Just as American culture is homogenizing the world, with respect to everything from movies to junk food, so to is it globalizing the human ...
Friday, January 15, 2010

The science of compassion

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The outpouring of aid and support for Haiti has been overwhelming.  It should make us wonder if we are somehow hardwired to be compassionate...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

The responsibility of command

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In the entire history of the US, only forty-four men have known exactly what it feels like to have the full weight of the nations security ...