Building on investigative reporting in WIRED Magazine and the New York Times, this session will explore why a company so good at design is so lousy at high-tech manufacturing, particularly...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Despite the fact that we've been in a foreclosure crisis for more than four years, precious little attention has been paid to how banks have used faked documents to steal...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Years worth of bailouts and bank regulation debates have placed a new level of political focus on the Federal Reserve. It has been a topic for the Occupy movement and...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
The Occupy movement created a major opportunity and an imperative for progressives: Figure out what a new system, one that isn't based solely on individual greed and a race to...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs has released data estimating that one in three women has been sexually assaulted and/or raped while on active service, double the rate for civilians, according...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
#TroyDavis and #TooMuchDoubt were trending topics when Troy Davis was executed last September, energizing the movement to abolish the death penalty and forcing an examination of the ways race and...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
For many low-income areas and communities of color, education is regarded as the key to rebuilding our communities and overcoming injustice. So why has education policy become so divisive? In...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
American public education is under concerted attack: Americans are told we are failing in international comparisons, urged to blame teachers and break their unions, turn more of our public education...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Can sports ownership actually shape the 2012 election? Can sports media’s dominant racial narratives influence opinion on Barack Obama? Is Tim Tebow the most influential American challenging Roe v. Wade?...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
In just over a year, a new grassroots movement has emerged to demand common-sense laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Representatives of two successful recent “Gun Politics...
