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Taking in our tumultuous times, it's clear that something is wrong. There is no mistaking that the way we're working isn't working. Figuring out why this is so -- and what we can do about it -- is the animating idea behind The Way We're Working Isn't Working, this month's HuffPost Book Club selection. It is essential reading for anyone who wants a more productive and meaningful life. The book's thesis is that a myth has taken hold that "human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time." Yet the most basic human survival need is to renew our energy. We're great at spending it, not so great at renewing it. The inevitable result: diminished judgment and wisdom -- and a world on the brink of collapse. "More and more," posits the book, "paradoxically, leads to less and less."
With all due respect to Kristin Chenoweth and all the Internet posters who've crashed down on the theater critic who claimed that gay actors can't and shouldn't play straight characters, I don't think the critic was being homophobic. Just wrong.
The proposal I'm rolling out today with Sen. Lieberman, major energy and comprehensive climate change legislation, will create nearly 2 million new jobs and support the research and development to help us maintain leadership.
There has been some grousing in the media about the paucity of racial minorities hired during Kagan's Deanship. I have known her for twenty-five years and must say that these criticisms are unfair.
Elected officials spend only as much time together as is absolutely necessary. And they only see each other in a single context: the ugly political and ideological clashes that end up dominating the daily talk radio shows.
One of the weirder qualities attributed to Elena Kagan is the widespread belief that she somehow will be able to reliably "persuade" perennial swing-vote Justice Kennedy. Is she some kind of mentalist?
An eight year old Dutch boy appears to have been the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash this morning at Tripoli Airport in Libya. How often is there a sole survivor?
The Fed has not been
chastened. It is more of a rogue actor than ever. But let's not lose
sight of what we have accomplished so far: real independent inquiry into
the Fed, and its incestuous relationships with Wall Street banks. For
the first time ever.
It's high time for us to get systematic about helping activist groups highlight life-or-death issues -- with or without the Yes Men's participation. That's what the Yes Lab is all about.
With the market zooming up and down like a demented bobbin, people who have money are looking for places to put it. As a public service, I inform them of some good places.
Here's the truth, for all those well-meaning payday defenders out there: Payday loans weren't created to help underserved populations, but to exploit helpless people.
There are two consumer protection amendments getting serious attention on the Senate floor this week, one of them positive, one of them incredibly destructive -- the kind of amendment that can actually sink the bill if adopted.
Sens. Kerry and Lieberman have done a remarkable job of building the foundation for clean energy and climate action. But to realize the promise of the bill, we need leadership from the top.
It is both deeply troubling and simultaneously not surprising to realize that the only things we can know about Elena Kagan is that she was a "political pragmatist" in the Clinton White House when it came to women's rights.
Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI called sexual abuse "truly terrifying." In his frank comments to reporters, he seemed to rebut Vatican curial officials who have sought to portray the crisis as somehow generated from the outside.
Isn't it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Tell me, and the world, about your work through the Department of Labor's Career Video Challenge. We are asking America to create short videos highlighting 15 in-demand occupations.
Greed needs a timeout with adult supervision for these out-of-control conglomerates messing with every aspect of our lives. But that won't happen until government regulation of multinational corporations is made respectable again.
Winning a majority of Republicans in November without electing a majority for radical, immediate rollback will be essentially as good as losing.
Blanche Lincoln wants to force the banks to put their derivatives into separate entities that aren't subsidized by you and me. This is just common sense. But it's the biggest battle in financial reform right now.
50 years ago, when West Virginians handed Kennedy a victory, it was only after the Democrat promised again and again not to restrict their access to birth control. That's right: the conservatives demanded their right to choose.
It seems to me that there's a dangerous sleight of hand going on here, a pretense that by drawing Muhammad you are bravely taking on the Dragon Threatening Civilization when in fact you are just hurting your Muslim neighbors.
It was movie night on American Idol. Okay, I didn't expect them to sing the theme from High Noon or Gone With the Wind, but Free Willy and Caddyshack?
The leader of Britain's Conservative Party and new prime minister says we're entering a new era -- where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more.
Social networking has proven to be a valuable conduit for reaching millennials with the Word of God. Interspersed with the latest tweets from a favorite actor or comedian come portions of Scripture in a Twitter feed.
The last person senators want as their spokesman or spokeswoman is a star. Why else would GOP senators have chosen McConnell?
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