What Ever Happened to 'Officer Friendly' Ferguson?
I approach this topic as a woman of color. I grew up in racially segregated Chicago. Although it was not the South, there were still neighborhoods where blacks were not welcomed. My first encounter...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 13: Congressman Tom Latham
Congressman Tom Latham represents a large, windy district in Iowa. But unfortunately the winds of change don't seem to have blown strongly enough to change his outdated views on energy and climate...
View ArticleFrom Gaza to Ferguson: Exposing the Toolbox of Racist Repression
Mass incarceration and militarized police forces are two of the most potent tools in a panoply of repressive instruments of power used by Israel and the U.S. By Corinna Mullin and Azadeh Shahshahani...
View ArticleAgainst Divestment -- Why Walking Away Won't Make a Difference
Fund managers who invest billions of dollars on behalf of nonprofits, workers, and retirees are under a lot of pressure to show their opposition to non-sustainable energy sources by selling all their...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Go Big or Go Home
There's an old saying in surfing: Go big or go home. There is no room for nuance or cerebral calculations when you charge large. For six years, President Obama has worked against an obstructionist...
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An Illustrated Analysis of Op-Ferguson
History has proven images can be a very powerful weapon. I am a fan of political satire and political cartoons, especially the widely unknown work of the great Dr. Suess during WWII. I created these...
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It Increasingly Looks Like Peace Will Have a Chance in Colombia
At a time when violence and killing seem to break out everywhere around the world, an increasingly strong beam of hope is being cast from Colombia where a 60-year old conflict between the government...
View ArticlePresident Obama: What Will Your Legacy Be?
History has an uncanny way of offering us the ability to write it and this is something we seem to forget at times as we struggle to comprehend the actions of others. History comes sweeping up behind...
View ArticleTreated Poorly in the Workplace?
Christine Porath is an associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where she focuses on the effects of bad behavior within organizations and how leaders can create...
View ArticleFerguson and America's Hatred of Democracy
Scholars of protest movements often explain the kind of civil unrest we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, as "politics by non-institutional means." Protest, they argue, is not irrational and aberrant,...
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Form Follows Dysfunction: The Enduring Legacy of a Strategic Failure
The great Chicago architect and author who helped shepherd the Modernist movement in design on the shoulders of his rigorous classical education, Louis Sullivan, declared famously in an 1896 essay, "...
View ArticleFerguson and Painful Truths
The painful spectacle of events in Ferguson, Missouri have once again focused the attention of our country on the issues of race and law enforcement. I've been watching, listening and waiting. Waiting...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Mental Illness and Suicide
Let's talk about it. Let's stop whispering about mental illness and suicide. Two suicides -- one close to home (Cheryl Hanna, who many of us had known and loved), and another, Robin Williams (who we...
View ArticleWhat Ferguson Means to Students
In the wake of confrontations following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., local schools are shuttered this week. In addition to concerns about lost learning time...
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Washington in 1964: How Different It Was
I read with interest, and a good bit of sadness, the story in The New York Times this week about the decline of the U.S. Senate Dining Room, apparently yet another victim of the noxious partisanship in...
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The Sensitive Issue of Immigration Reform
While history records that Christopher Columbus discovered America, it also tells us by the time he got there, the land had already been inhabited by tribal groups who were known as hunter-gatherers...
View ArticleHow the United States Can Escape the Inequality Trap
We are stuck in an inequality trap. The divide between the richest 1 percent and everyone else is self-reinforcing, according to the latest economic research, making it harder to resist as it worsens....
View Article'Who's Looking for Me?': God's and America's Invisible Children
Not long ago Reverend Romal Tune was the child in “Who’s Looking for Me,” his spoken word piece shared below -- the hungry boy begging strangers for money and watching them cross the street to avoid...
View ArticleCorporations Spy on Nonprofits With Impunity
Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: Corporations conduct espionage against U.S. nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice. Yes, that means using a...
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Friday Talking Points -- Big and Little Brother
A lot happened in the world of politics this week. People are still dumping buckets of ice water over their heads, for instance. There are actually multiple scandals happening to various governors...
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