Commentary - America's Future

By Liz Hine • Feb 25,2013

How to Start the Search for a Mentor

Finding mentors and establishing strong working relationships with them can be an incredibly valuable part of your career development. Mentors can take all shapes and sizes – they could be...

By Claire Kittle • Feb 22,2013 Culture

Work-Life Balance Policies: A Key to Attracting and Retaining Talent

This month I want to offer valuable advice about work-life balance from my good friends at Illinois Policy Institute. At the Institute, they value work-life balance and are always experimenting...

By Fady Zaki • Feb 22,2013

‘Innocence of Islam’ Incident Proves Governments Can’t Control Speech

It seemed like a familiar plot, someone publishes what they deem artistic, albeit offensive to Islam, Muslims get enraged, protests spread, so-called artists and their families go into hiding, embassies...

By Peter Redpath • Feb 21,2013

How I Should Have Started This Series, but Intentionally Didn’t

In my first post, I wrote about the term “networking” and about what a dirty connotation it has, but I never got into the definition of “networking” since I wanted...

By Elisha Maldonado • Feb 21,2013

Turkey Applies To The Dictators’ Club

On the one hand, there is the European Union, a band of democratic nations with standards on human rights practices, democracy and market economies. On the other, there is the...

By Jameson Taylor • Feb 20,2013 Policy

Should You Be a Policy Generalist or Specialist?

If you are wrestling over whether to specialize in any one field, as opposed to being a policy generalist, chances are you have already answered this question for yourself and...