Madeleine Albright

Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — Sketching impressive contributions to society in intensely personal terms, President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to...

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What I Learned from Madeleine Albright

Women 2.0 | Posted 05.23.2012

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What we have come to clearly know now, Ms. Albright knew well back then: Self-promotion and asking for what you want and need are among the most essential keys to a woman's success.

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Militarization of the Mothers: You've Come a Long Way, Baby, from Mother's Day for Peace

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.15.2012

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Feminist war hawks don't want to talk about the women and children victims of war--or even count them--any more than their male counterparts.

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Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter Reveals Family Secrets (EXCERPT)

| | Posted 04.30.2012

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What does it feel like to be told your entire perception of your family and your childhood was wrong? Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of sta...

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Madeleine Albright Discusses Judaism And Her New World War II Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 04.28.2012

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In the 11 years since she held one of the highest positions in American government as secretary of state, Madeleine Albright has been a professor, Dem...

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Obama Awarding Big Honor

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — The first female secretary of state, a former astronaut, and a musical pioneer are among this year's recipients of the Medal of Fre...

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Albright: Hillary Clinton's Job Is No Party

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 04.21.2012

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Despite photos showing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drinking and dancing in Colombia, Madeleine Albright -- the first female Secretary of S...

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Focusing on Women in the World

Cheryl Saban Ph.D. | Posted 05.17.2012

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There was shock and there was repugnance at what these women had been subjected to, mostly at the hands of men, but sometimes at the hands of other women -- at times their own mothers.

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How to Lead Like a Lawyer

Tom Fox | Posted 04.07.2012

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"Give me your best. It's the least you can do. It's also the most you can do. What more can I ask for? It's also important for people to judge their own work. Forget about being given gold stars by others. Judge something by your own standards."

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America Does Not Happen By Accident

Ming Holden | Posted 03.17.2012

Simply put, America needs not to abandon foreign aid because if it did so, it would forfeit leadership.

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Iraq War in Retrospect: Toppling Saddam Not Worth the Cost

Michael Hughes | Posted 02.27.2012

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The fact we have the military might to conquer the world matters not when our economic backbone is on the verge of snapping. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "How far can you go without destroying from within, what you are trying to defend from without?"

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12 Days Of Giving To Support Women And Girls Globally

Stephenie Foster | Posted 02.24.2012

As we begin the Twelve Days of Christmas, and mark the fifth night of Hanukah, here are some organizations I recommend that help create sustainable change for women and girls worldwide.

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What All the Single Ladies Are Going to Do (in Corporate America)

Rosina Samadani | Posted 01.18.2012

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As women embrace this idea and shift energy they have been putting towards finding a mate -- and potentially caring for a family -- to their life's work, what is going to happen?

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PHOTOS: Madeleine Albright's Pin Collection Coming To The DAM

Posted 12.05.2011

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Political junkies and feminists alike may be delighted about the pins and needles exhibit coming soon to the Denver Art Museum in April 2012. "Rea...

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Islamophobia Network Targets Top Performing American Schools

Michael Shank | Posted 11.26.2011

While I recognize that there are legitimate concerns regarding the use of public funds for these charter schools... it seems that at the heart of this is an undercurrent of phobia about Islamic teaching in America.

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What World Leaders Think About The U.S. Debt Ceiling Debate

Posted 09.25.2011

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As Washington struggles to find compromise on its way to a debt ceiling deal, international leaders have spoken out on the U.S. debt situation and the...

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Madeleine Albright On Debt Crisis: 'It Looks Strange That We Can't Deal With This'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The ongoing political circus over raising the debt ceiling is undermining America's position as a "moral example" for the rest of the wo...

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Republicans Keen to Kill America's Only Peace Agency -- Forever

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 07.25.2011

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We need vital institutions in this country that have no political agenda and no partisan bias. USIP convenes the left and the right, the civilian and the military, the national and the international players.

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Five Next Steps To Increase American Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.04.2011

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There's one less threat to America this week, but there are 21,000 others waiting to explode. That's the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia.

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Daring to Be Ourselves -- Financially

Manisha Thakor | Posted 05.25.2011

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A statistic from that piece keeps floating through my head: Women who consistently negotiate their salaries earn $1 million more over their work lives than women who do not.

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Specter of Past African Genocides Haunts U.S. in Sudan

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. incentives to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir seem to have backed him off from the threat of renewed war and mass killings in the south, at least for now.

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Media Lit 101: The Aspen Institute -- Photoshopping Madeleine Albright & Condi Rice

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Imagine you are Walter Isaacson. You are the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, "a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based...

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National Security Experts vs. Forces of Delay

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New START treaty should be a no-brainer: it's a renewal of a treaty originally negotiated by Ronald Reagan and it will make America safer.

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Islam and the West: Reaching Intercultural Understanding

Madeleine Albright | Posted 05.25.2011

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In engaging the Muslim world, Western leaders must not gloss over differences or duck hard issues. Superficial courtesy is easy, but the path to agreement on the application of moral principles is arduous.

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No Good Idea Ever Dies

Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a new book, General Hugh Shelton apparently describes an incident in 1997 in which someone in the Clinton cabinet suggested that the U.S. let a plane get shot down in order to provide a pretext to invade Iraq.

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