Can a business be a positive force for social good and still be successful?

The exodus of millions of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe has created challenges of unprecedented proportions. Civil wars, the violence of ISIL, failing states, and economic misery constantly produce new waves of refugees. How can we end the suffering of huge numbers of people, culturally integrate them into European societies, stem the rise of anti-immigrant right wing movements, and preserve Europe's greatest post war achievement in overcoming the conflicts of the past, the European Union?

The lives of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's children and grandchildren have been extensively examined in the media. The “Camelot” years of JFK and Jackie, John's and Bobby's assassinations and Ted's personal and political life are part of our history. However, there is one Kennedy about whom we've known little, until now. Kate Larson’s latest work reveals the central role the tragic life of the Kennedys’ eldest daughter played in shaping one of our nation’s most famous families.

How does one become an effective leader in a diverse world? Working with various groups is not merely a “diversity” issue; it is a key success factor for all organizations and the leaders who steer them. Dr. Renee Richardson Gosline will help us toward a better understanding of how the decisions we make as leaders are affected by labels and their associations, and how that understanding can in turn make leaders more mindful of diversity – to build inclusive environments and maximize performance.

With a charge in life to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, Keith Magee is an internationally sought after non-profit leader, speaker, and preacher. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of Social Justice and Poverty, University of Birmingham, England, and Visiting Scholar at Boston University.

Education reform today focuses on quantifiable measures of student learning, which are then used to rate teacher and school quality.  Reform of pedagogy concentrates on its technical aspects, and attempts to enumerate and catalogue the most minute features of teaching behaviors.  Test results are used to punish and threaten educators, and to obscure the humanity of both teachers and students, ignoring local contexts, as well as the powerful social and economic factors that affect our students’ lives and shape their futures.  One of the most pernicious myths of curricular refo

Daniel Weeks, the executive director of Open Democracy (a non-partisan advocacy organization founded by Doris “Granny D” Haddock), maintains that democracy is in default.

In 1982, more than 11,000 New Yorkers saw archaeologists at work on an excavation project at 175 Water Street, just blocks from the heart of New York’s Financial District. Then it was all gone. What would an underwater archeologist find beneath the pavement of Lower Manhattan? The remains of a colonial merchant ship.

When Marjorie Heins started her "dream job" at the American Civil Liberty Union's Arts Censorship Project in 1991, she did not realize how much it would focus on sex. The previous year, however, had seen prosecutions for obscenity against a museum for showing the works of famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and against a music store owner for selling a recording by a rap group. Heins foresaw how sex-and-censorship wars would continue throughout the 1990s.