August 2022

A recent poll highlighted how college students disassociate from peers with opposing political opinions. Dr. Nathan Shrader, an associate professor of political science at NEC, analyzed this phenomenon through a modern lens: “I wouldn’t expect them to have the feelings I did of my peers whom I disagreed with twenty years ago because the disagreements—and what we disagreed about—have changed so very much.”

The last few chapters of the arrest and death of George Floyd unfolded recently with federal prison sentences for every officer on the scene for crimes including failure to provide medical aid, and failure to intervene Chauvin. The next test the justice system is facing is if it will apply the federal precedent in similar cases. Joe Tamburino, a leading criminal defense attorney in Minneapolis, explains how the DOJ is, so far, failing that test.

Despite bipartisan calls for comprehensive charter school reform, the PA General Assembly has, once again, put this year’s budget to bed without any significant reforms to the charter school law—widely recognized as one of the worst in the country. Long-time public servants, Robert Gleason and Eugene DePasquale, express their disappointment with the continued inaction by their state legislature. Their message to policymakers: it’s time for reform!

Pedro Vega, a high school social studies teacher from New York, has always appreciated the articulate discussions of his students. However, in recent years, he’s noticed that they’ve been more reluctant to openly share and discuss their views on politics. It’s not that they don’t have opinions, as Vega explains, they are afraid of being ostracized in front of others— fearing being called racist, intolerant, fascist, or woke.

Some lawmakers believe that carried interest has become a financial burden on American society as it misaligns rewards for the wealthy, inhibits risk, reduces competitiveness, and penalizes the American workforce. Supporters, on the other hand, argue that the carried interest tax law incentivizes long term investments and increases and more efficiently distributes the country’s wealth. Robert Goldberg, an entrepreneur and investor, argues that both are wrong.

Liz Cheney being defeated in her primary in a resounding thirty-point landslide has cultivated no shortage of reactions. But one proverbial collective sigh of relief came from an often-overlooked community when talking politics: combat veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other theaters of the “Global War on Terrorism”.

After years of facing a global health crisis, the workforce was collectively exhausted. As the labor shortage continues to rise, companies have responded by wooing recruits with perks and pay. But new data shows that more pay is not the solution for burnout. Award-winning journalist and author, Jennifer Moss lays out everything you need to know before you decide to make your job work, or if quitting is the cure for your burnout.

In the wake of the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Robert Kelly, a retired Coast Guard Reserve Captain who served in the White House for Presidents Reagan and Bush, reflects on his own handling of classified information. He explains the standard protocols surrounding secret material, and why he and so many of his former colleagues are, “sickened by seeing so many of the people’s elected representatives acting in such an irresponsible manner.”

When we assign key functions of our brain to be performed by a smartphone, are we not devolving? PJ DiMuzio, co-founder of Creative Outfit, chronicles the year that he chose to protect his mind by unplugging it; ditching his smartphone– despite working in digital production– so that he could reconstruct his relationships, memory, focus, and business.

There is an ancient inscription carved above the door of St. Paul’s Monastery located on the secluded Mount Athos peninsula in Macedonia, Northern Greece. It reads: If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die. Allow me to dissect the metaphysical maxim into two segments via an experiential self-inquiry to better help clarify the head-scratching questions that are potentially arising in your voice-in-the-head at this very moment.