We Are Using a Set of Beliefs and Assumptions That No Longer Serve Us
In my previous blog post, I identified the gap between our noble intentions and our reality that is the primary source of value destruction in organizations, and exhaustion in leaders (Read it here:...
View ArticleUkrainians, Not the U.S., Will Resolve Their Problems
Here we are again. Something bad happens sometimes. After declaring that we do not want to go to war, we are back to the warrior path. We just love it, don't we? Particularly the GOP who prefers to...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Playing a Dog-Eared 'Hitler' Card
The frontrunner to become the next president of the United States is playing an old and dangerous political game -- comparing a foreign leader to Adolf Hitler. At a private charity event on Tuesday, in...
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International Women's Day: Sexual Violence and 'Honor Inequality' in India
Photo Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave March 8 is International Women's Day. It also marks the 39th year since the United Nations declared the year 1975 as the International Women's Year. This year's theme...
View ArticleIf We Can Sanction Russia Over Crimea, We Can Sanction Israel Over Palestine
I'm so delighted that President Obama and Congress are moving to impose sanctions on Russia over its military intervention in Crimea. Regardless of whether one thinks this is a wise or just policy in...
View ArticleLindsey Graham Praised Obama's Syrian Chemical Weapons' Outcome... Until He...
In a statement dripping with sarcasm and disdain, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "advised" President Obama not to go on television and draw red lines because Graham, and world leaders (whose minds and...
View ArticleWATCH: These iPod-Based Magic Tricks Are SO. MUCH. FUN
What if deception is in the eye of the beholder? And what if lies can help us tell the truth? Enter into the multimedia world of magician Marco Tempest and decide for yourself. Ideas are not set in...
View ArticleLet Americans Never Have to Ask Ourselves, 'Who Lost Egypt?'
As Egypt approaches a crucial moment of transition, both Americans and Egyptians should take careful stock of the value of their long-standing but currently stressed strategic relationship. We must...
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Huffington Magazine This Week: Music With a Message
In this week's issue, Jon Ward profiles Lecrae Moore, a fascinating artist straddling the Christian and hip hop worlds. Moore, whose music comes with a distinctly Christian message, has long been a...
View ArticleModern Conservatives: Frightened Falsifying Fools
The conservatives I grew up with built one of history's most remarkable movements. Rising from the ashes of one of the biggest electoral landslides of all time in 1964, after three decades with very...
View ArticleHow to Talk and Listen to Iran
Current negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program in Geneva have raised hopes that there may be rapprochement between Iran and the West. This recalls an earlier potential 'thaw' in U.S.-Iran...
View ArticleThe War on Democracy: The Deep State
Over the course of the past decade, the doyens of the left, Peter Dale Scott and Noam Chomsky, began to use the term "deep state" to refer to the relatively small number of Washington and Wall Street...
View ArticleTime to Stop the Train: Keeping Our Young Brothers of Color
I have a vivid memory of my first visit to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Some young inmates were reading my book, The Soul of Politics, as part of a seminary program in the...
View ArticleBest And Worst Case Scenarios for Ukraine Crisis: World Peace And Nuclear War
No one yet knows how the Ukraine crisis will play out. Indeed, the whole story is a lesson in the perils of prediction. Already we have a classic: "Putin's Bluff? U.S. Spies Say Russia Won't Invade...
View ArticleWomen's Leadership Can Transform the Way We Do Business in a...
As a global community, we find ourselves at a critical juncture. One path -- the "business as usual" route -- sees us approach a drastically warmer world, where our continuing reliance on fossil fuels...
View ArticleUganda's Anti-Gay Law and Media Outings Threaten Everyone
There are few aspirations that almost all of the globe's human population share. Good health is one, and I believe health care to be a fundamental human right. Illness impedes individuals from...
View ArticleUnblock America!
There's a lot of discussion in France these days about whether the country is "blocked." Economic growth is too little, job creation is abysmal -- especially among 18 - 30 year olds for more than a...
View ArticleNo Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
For the last 15 years, the United States has had a love affair with "zero-tolerance policies" and this week's Ohio headlines citing the suspension of 10-year-old Nathan Entingh for pretending to use...
View ArticleCelebrating Women's Day, Winning on Reproductive Rights
Silence equals death. California AIDS activists taught the world the power of plain and direct talk about gender bias and sexuality to save lives. The ability to control whether and when to have a...
View ArticleIt's Not the Hate, It's the Stupidity
Alright. Woo-hoo. We're partying now. With the kind of enthusiasm normally reserved for sorting Phillips head screws from flat head screws, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer publicly vetoed SB 1062,...
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