Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A President Who Really Got Things Done

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Elections do have consequences and leaders really do matter. Grassroots voices and organizing can bring attention to a problem, but it’s the...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Why Art and Artists Matter...Now More Than Ever

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In the US. or anywhere else around the world, when freedom is threatened, when liberty is under siege, it is often the artist that comes to ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Network vs. The Despot

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Those that study history know that not only is it not static, but that it tends to go though seemingly recurring periods. We’ve seen times ...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Timing is Everything!

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Playing Clue, writing, quizzing our kids or friends, or analyzing data to make decisions, we are all familiar with those key question of who...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Does Political Organizing Still Matter?

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For those that are politically engaged, and are horrified by the current policy decisions being made and enacted by the current administrati...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Understanding the Panama Papers

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In the current debate over taxes we here a lot about offshore funds, the repatriation of corporate dollars, and how lowering marginal tax ra...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Not Your Father's Non-Profit

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Poll after poll tell us that people have lost faith in government and in big institutions to solve the nation’s or even the world's prob...
Monday, January 15, 2018

The Daniel Ellsberg Story You Won't See In THE POST

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Somebody asked me recently if I thought that this time that we are living through will be as significant and as profoundly influential as t...
Friday, January 12, 2018

What Would Bill Buckley Think of His Party Today?

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The founders of modern conservatism would not recognize it today. The infusion of libertarian selfishness, social issues and populism are a...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Jeff Sessions Wants It To Be 1930

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Even with respect to drugs, everything old is new again. Jeff Sessions is not just trying to take drug policy back to the 1960s, his ideas t...

"Things Won't Work Out By Themselves"

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In today’s world it’s not just technology that changes quickly. Just twenty-five years ago, some thought we had reached the end of history....
Monday, January 8, 2018

Trump/Russia from 30,000 Feet

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There is an old expression that’s long been part of the training of medical students. It says that if you hear hooves, look for horses, no...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Where Is Your Money Sleeping?

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As the new year begins, we often think about what to do with our money. In a world in which we are more socially and politically divided tha...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

The World Will Never Be The Same After AI

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One of the criticisms of Silicon Valley is often that so much talent and engineering is going toward the creation of minor advancements. A...
Friday, December 29, 2017

A Look At What A Real President Was Like

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I’m not sure when politics became a dirty word. But there was a time when it was a noble profession. When the best the the brightest sought ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Our Collective Search for Meaning And What Happens If We Can't Find It

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From the time we first enter the world, to the moment we read or listen to the morning news, we are trying to make sense of the world. We a...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Sleep...It's Not Just For Wimps Anymore

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Tune in to the news any day, and there is lots to lose sleep over. Not the least of which is the worry that if we are not sleeping correct...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

This Man Could Have Prevented 9/11

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Bill Binney was an NSA analyst whose work was so effective it was shut down. It threatened to derail the gravy train fueled by the kinds of...
Monday, December 11, 2017

The Joys of Refugees

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In our hyper partisan and over politicized culture, we’re always quick and anxious to talk about DACA, Dreamers, immigration, deportation, e...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Espionage 101: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities

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Once upon a time, at the apogee of the cold war, the CIA recruited the best and the brightest from our most elite universities. The likes o...