by jstewardfree | Sep 21, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Mark Meckler | On September 11, 2001, the first successful counterattack of our long war against Islamic jihad was launched not by the United States military, but by a small, spontaneously formed, self-governing group of American citizens who possessed the courage...
by jstewardfree | Sep 9, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Michael Metzger | If a recent New York Times article describing Amazon’s culture is anywhere close to the truth, Amazon is not a healthy place to work. In fact, it’s more like the Hunger Games. A few weeks back, NYT reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld wrote...
by jstewardfree | Sep 7, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
In the American political system, does your individual vote matter? How is political power distributed throughout the nation’s citizenry? Consider a number of possible ways to approach this compelling question. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to...
by jstewardfree | Sep 7, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Jonathan V. Last | You may recall Brendan Eich. The cofounder and CEO of Mozilla was dismissed from his company in 2014 when it was discovered that, six years earlier, he had donated $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8 campaign. That ballot initiative, limiting...
by jstewardfree | Sep 2, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Kim Lewis | The UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that forced labor generated annual profits of $150 billion in 2014. They also believe that one quarter of the world’s 20.9 million victims of human trafficking are children. The National...