In a late 2011 article, I argued that Syria's upheaval thrusts Turkey and Iran into a collision course because they have opposing geostrategic interests in an outcome that neither party can afford to ignore. Four months later, it has become increasingly clear that the Syrian uprising transcends Iran's...
Jody Christopherson | Posted April 11, 2012
Theater is a medium of witnessing. But I'm not just talking about the audience here. Witnessing, though something the audience has been doing for centuries, is a new way of exploring theater's intrinsic possibilities. Art workers practicing theater for change in...
Andy Ostroy | Posted April 11, 2012
Fern Siegel | Posted April 11, 2012
Evita Peron knew something about the dangerous mix of politics and celebrity. Her power grab is based on spectacle -- "They need to adore me/so Christian Dior me." And they do. Alongside husband Juan Peron, the captivating Eva ruled Argentina. But in theatrical terms, the Broadway revival of Evita at...
J.D. Roth | Posted April 11, 2012
Though I've been reading and writing about money for six years now, I still do stupid things sometimes. Most of these errors are un-interesting -- it's the compulsive spending that's interesting, and I seem to have that under control -- but sometimes it's instructive to look at the mundane...
Sandra B. Henriquez | Posted April 11, 2012
This entry was co-authored with HUD Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research Dr. Raphael Bostic.
The connection between housing and health is one that average families feel every day. More than 6.8 million American households pay more than half their income for rent. And the pressure...
Jim Moret | Posted April 11, 2012
Actually, the title is a bit of an exaggeration, True, I've dropped 27 pounds in nine weeks, but that is closer to a 13 percent weight loss than it is to 50 percent. Still, I didn't think that saying I'm "87 percent of the man I used to be" had...
Clarissa Burt | Posted April 11, 2012
Dolores Seright had everything. She was a successful career woman who lived in a beautiful home and had an adoring family. She was living the dream life until the day she got the news that she had stage three breast cancer. Faced with the reality of her own mortality, Mrs....
Scott Mendelson | Posted April 11, 2012
Melinda Gates | Posted April 11, 2012
Last week, I gave a TEDxChange talk in Berlin, and the video is now ready for viewing here and at TED.com. My argument is simple:
1. Birth control is an uncontroversial idea (practiced by a billion people) that has unfortunately become controversial.
2. As...
Henry Freeman | Posted April 11, 2012
For the first time in over 30 years since the original West End Production at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita is showing these days on Broadway. It tells the story of Argentina's Eva Peron, who rose from the slums of Argentina...
Robert Jordan | Posted April 11, 2012
Startup entrepreneurs are often fueled more by passion than business savvy -- which is why so many flame out. Worse, when they believe conventional theory from negotiating gurus that says that compromise, if cleverly crafted, will drive the results they are seeking, they ultimately give away too much. According to...
Lisa Hickman | Posted April 11, 2012
Thomas is permanently labeled a "doubter" by two millennia of history books, sermons, cartoons and theological treatises in the Christian tradition. A cartoon by Joshua Harris has Thomas crying out, "All I'm saying is we don't call Peter 'Denying Peter.'"
Thomas is not...
Alexandre Lemille | Posted April 11, 2012
After a university thesis on Mandela and the end of the apartheid era, I left France in 1997 to work in South Africa for a photo processing company creating self-business booths that I monitored in Soweto, an underprivileged city in the suburbs of Johannesburg. This was my first participation in...
Shannon Galpin | Posted April 11, 2012
Take the community conversation of coffeehouse culture, throw in the passion of youth activism, add in the power of social media and the borderless knowledge of the Internet, and package it up in a social enterprise and what do you get? Internet cafes.
Across the world, Internet cafes are...
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson | Posted April 11, 2012
Best Buy's CEO Brian Dunn did a courageous and proper thing for shareholders by resigning. He was not the right person to lead Best Buy into battle against online-only competitors that use Best Buy's spacious and beautiful stores as the showroom for their products. To make things even worse, smartphones...
Peter McGraw and Joel Warner | Posted April 11, 2012
For a long, long time, the comedy scene in Portland, Oregon, was anemic. No "A-room" comedy clubs, no big comedy bookers, no national buzz.
That changed in 2008 with the launch of the city's Bridgetown Comedy Festival, which featured 50 comedians and headliner Patton Oswalt. The following year,...
James Doran | Posted April 11, 2012
My wife's father came from a tiny village in the south of China called Loong Poon Lei, an idyllic corner of the People's Republic.
I was taken aback by the beauty of the place when I visited after a trip to Hong Kong, some four hours drive to the...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted April 11, 2012