Monday, March 28, 2016

Anne Garrels' reports from Putin Country

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A popular desire for authoritarian rule in the face of a changing and sometimes shaky economy. A overheated sense of nationalism, to cover u...
Friday, March 25, 2016

The Industries of the Future

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Just for fun, pull out or get a copy of the originally published version of the best seller What Color Is Your Parachute. Originally publis...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Can We Thrive At Midlife?

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We've all heard it before. Sixty is the new fifty, fifty is the new forty, etc. It's all in the service our fear, or dread of agin...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Andy Grove R.I.P. - Our conversation from 1996

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Andy Grove, perhaps more than anyone other than Steve Jobs transformed technology, drove the growth of Silicon Valley and shaped the views o...
Monday, March 21, 2016

The Math Myth

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If we examine why so many students don’t graduate High School, we find that failure to succeed at High School math is often at the core of t...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

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For years we’ve had just one image of the drug wars. Images conjured up from movies like the Godfather or Scarface, or reading about LA bat...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Not Even Strip Clubs Are Not Safe From Corporate Homogenization

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The power and reach of corporate America has become a staple of our political dialogue. Consolidation and corporatization has touched almos...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

How Digital Memory May Change What Makes Us Human

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Back in 320 BC Socrates worried about how written language would impact our ability to remember. This was long, long before moveable type, t...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Making Sense of the Meaning of Life

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In this age of consumerism, instant gratification and information, it’s often hard to think about something as abstract as the “meaning of...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Obama and the Black Community - Seven Years Later

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Last week Elizabeth Warren gave a scathing speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, about the seven year efforts, on the part of Republicans...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

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Today, globalization faces a crisis of its own success. The international movement of goods, money, communications and ideas has been going...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Nation on the Take

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Money and politics have become synonymous. Politicians spend that majority of their time raising money, (which they claim they hate) while ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Immigration Creates Heros

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It’s funny how history repeats itself. In the mid 19th Century, partly in response to the Great Famine, waves of Irish immigrants came to ...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Why the Contextual aspect of Health Care can Save Lives and Money

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With all the technology around today, doctors still often fail to make the right diagnosis. Usually not due to any failure of knowledge or ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Imagine if Bernie Sanders became a right wing intellectual? Stranger things have happened.

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Although, incorrectly attributed to Churchill, most of you have heard the quote that "if you're not a liberal when you're 25,...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

He Used Journalism as a Way to Understand the World

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It always amazing with famous people, particularly those that sit atop the world stage, to find out things, even after decades, that we didn...
Friday, February 26, 2016

A Look at America at its Best

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Say the word immigration today, and the political implications are both ugly and controversial. On the plus side a survey out just this wee...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Teens that Read....Imagine

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While I have not seen the movie, I do know from talking to some teens that the new film Pride and Prejudice Zombies has actually inspired k...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Artist, Critic, Beauty and Truth

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How many times have you gone to the movies, or to an art exhibit or read a book and not really felt that you’ve completed the experience un...
Friday, February 19, 2016

With every song in our pocket, why do we listen to the same stuff over and over and over again?

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This year, in a very tired and traditional way, the Grammy’s focused on the world of Pop music. But the fact is, no matter how traditional ...