News Media Spotlight

Current Topic: CREATIVITY
Eve Rodsky partners with Hello Sunshine and Oui by Yoplait to explore what finding your Unicorn Space is all about.
Current Topic: NATIONAL SECURITY
Anand Giridharadas speaks on Morning Joe about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
Current Topic: TIME MANAGEMENT
In her New York Times article, Laura Vanderkam writes about the necessity to take vacations to avoid burnout.
Current Topic: AFGHANISTAN
Phil Klay writes in Time about American withdrawal and the collapse of the Afghan government.

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Books for the Current Moment

HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt show how democracies around the world die and how ours can be saved.
AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE: John Dean shares an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVITUDE: Mark Leibovich tells an unflinching account of the moral route of a major American political party and the transformation of major party players into the administration’s chief enablers.
OUR UNFINISHED MARCH: Eric Holder provides a playbook for how we can save our democracy.

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