A Year Later -- My Clarion Call to America Left Unanswered
We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.
We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.
Nancy Hopkins | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
When someone suggests gender diversity as an asset of a job candidate, the reply is often "Oh no, I'm only interested in merit." Yet name some other quality needed for the position, and the idea of merit is assumed, not questioned.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Rob Fishman | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
Of all the misdeeds carried out on the southern tip of Manhattan over the last decade, perhaps Wall Street's greatest fraud was to arrogate the very meaning of the American Dream.
Phillip Martin | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Rick Santelli's self-righteous outburst directed at down-on-their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim."
Jill Nelson | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media
In journalism, white people who are granted the role of analyzing everyone, including African Americans, who are likely overlooked or spoken for by white expert opinion.
Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
Change, unfortunately, is hard to come by in Italy, a country bogged down by red-tape, political scandals and lack of innovation.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.
Lynn Tilton | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business