Business Ethics? What a Concept

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2009 In what can only be the beginning of social revolution, 20 percent of Harvard's MBAs have signed an ethics pledge, vowing not to advance their "own narrow ambitions" at the expense of others. But the question remains, where exactly is the other 80 percent of the class? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Living Large and in Charge

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 8, 2009 Not surprisingly, Lawrence Summers is convinced that he deserved every penny of the $8 million that Wall Street firms paid him last year. And why shouldn’t he be cut in on the loot from the loopholes in the toxic derivatives market that he pushed into law when he was Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Norman Birnbaum on Susan Sontag

BLANK Mar 6, 2009 The publication of Sontag's early diaries provides a revelatory look at the self-inventions of the late writer. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Huge Opportunity for the Mom in Chief

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jan 15, 2009 What will happen if Michelle Obama makes the personal her political issue? What would a serious work-and-family policy look like? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 8, 2008 The multiple failures that beset the country can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think. They focus instead on creating hordes of competent systems managers. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Obama’s E-Team

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Nov 25, 2008 Obama's selection of a team of highly skilled pragmatists has already been described as a move to the political center, but Obama advisers and longtime acquaintances say that this is a misreading of the incoming president and his approach. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Molecular Full Monty

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Oct 23, 2008 A cohort of entrepreneurs and scientists is the cutting edge of the Personal Genome Project. In an act of altruism and/or exhibitionism, the PGP-10 have put their medical records, traits and genetic codes on the Web where all the scientists, paparazzo and peeping Toms can see them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Study: Media Were Mean to McCain, Not Clinton

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2008 A new study by two of journalism's leading independent institutions has found that complaints from Hillary Clinton and her campaign that the media treated her unfairly are largely unfounded. According to the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard's Shorenstein Center, it's John McCain who should be upset with the coverage. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Aide Quits Over Remark About Clinton

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2008 A Scottish newspaper played a key role in the resignation of Samantha Power, Harvard professor and unpaid foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama's campaign. Power stepped down after she commented to The Scotsman that Hillary Clinton was "a monster" who was "stooping to anything" to clinch the Democratic nomination. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lessons From Walter Reed

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2007 Linda Bilmes, the Harvard finance expert who helped establish the true cost of the war, including veteran healthcare, turns her attention to the Walter Reed scandal, and the bureaucratic quagmire that keeps our soldiers from getting help. Bilmes offers four lessons to avoid future problems. We can only hope someone takes her advice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A New Day at Harvard

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Feb 15, 2007 Drew Gilpin Faust's appointment as the university's new president comes at a time when the story line of feminism has taken an odd turn. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Harvard Chooses First Woman President

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2007 A year after its president was forced to resign because of a controversial remark about gender, Harvard University is about to appoint its first woman president. The promotion of Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, will end a 371-year-long drought of female leadership at one of the nation's oldest institutions. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )