Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The GOP Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy

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I talked to a Democratic member of Congress recently who told me how both Democrats and Republicans were still surprised by the outcome of t...

Advertising Today May Be Harder To Find Than The Real Don Draper

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Every aspect of our media landscape is changing. As newspapers are having to move online, they have to find new ways to engage an audience....
Monday, November 28, 2016

In The Cloud, No One Can Hear You Think

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Not a day goes by that you don’t pick up your smartphone to access a piece of information. Every dinner party or get together has the scene...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Can Entrepreneurship Save the World?

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A not terribly successful American President was right when he said that “the business of America is business.” In fact, today it would be s...

Some of Us Want To Go To Canada...Elon Musk Wants To Go To Mars

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Fifty four years ago JFK, at the height of the Cold War, set us on a path to the moon. Today, absent the Cold War and in a world where a n...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Why Presidential Appointees Matter

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Back in 1992 the mantra of the Bill Clinton campaign was that “it's the economy stupid.” Surprising, since the majority of American cam...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Using Design Thinking for Life

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Look around your home or office, or even your car. Everything there was designed. Albeit not always well. Sometimes with an eye towards fu...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Why the Growing Gap Between Business and the Public Hurts Both

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Herbert Hoover said that “the business of America is business.” If he were around today, in the age of globalization, he might have referre...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Scenes from a McMarriage

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Think about those things that are usually the most personal, the most intimate and complex. A few of them are what goes on inside a marr...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

What We Can Learn From Looking At Economic Interests That Crossed the Battle Lines During the Last Civil War

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It’s always so interesting all the assumptions we make about history. They tell us something about the assumptions we might be making about ...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Anger, Violence, Dispair...The Worst Is Yet To Come

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Watching post-Election Day events has been like watching a car wreck. We know we shouldn’t look, but we can’t help but be curious. The key...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Why the Isis rhetoric to restore the Caliphate is exactly like Trump wanting to Make America Great Again.

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It's hard to imagine today, but the East, what we refer to now as the Middle East, was once a pinnacle of civilization. Like all great ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Every Single Aspect of Today's Immigration Debate, We've Heard Before

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We are a nation of immigrants. For 240 years we have opened our arms to those seeking to come to America and for many of those years New Yo...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Why aren't we having this conversation about Medicare and Healthcare?

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Medicare has often been referred to as the third rail of American politics. Because it has become so woven into the fabric of American lif...
Friday, October 28, 2016

What Can History Teach Us About Our Current Political Climate

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How many times have we heard that this election is like no other? That this is an extinction level event, threatening the very fabric of the...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Inequality....the great American Divide

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More than race and more than gender, class and wealth are the great divide in America today. There was a time when those with wealth repres...
Monday, October 24, 2016

A Contrarian View of Inequality

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If there is a central political principle that organizes what little policy debate there is in this election it seems to be centered around ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Tom Hayden RIP

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A year ago, on Radio WhoWhatWhy, I spoke with Tom Hayden about his passion and excitement at the opening up of Cuba.  This was the last tim...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Desert and the Cities Sing

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Looking at the broad sweep of history and change in the 20th and 21st Century, it’s arguable that the dynamics of Israel, its relationship ...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Are the Mexican Drug Wars a Kind of Disneyland for Teenage Boys?

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Part mythology and part the result of the current Presidential campaign, we have this image of the US/Mexican border as divided territory. ...