by Marian Wang, ProPublica As the Obama administration grapples with whether to arm the Libyan rebels, it has several things to consider—not least of which is the question of whether doing so would be legal. The State Department had been pretty clear about the matter earlier this month, with then-spokesman PJ Crowley telling reporters [1] […]
Chairs of both the House and Senate Intelligence committee’s warn of terrorist threat to America
The Chairmen of both the House and Senate Intelligence committees said Sunday that terrorists have gained ground in the past two years and that the United States is “not any safer” than it was at the outset of 2011. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, agreed that despite the death of Bin […]
How Can We Enable Entrepreneurship in Business School?
In late June, I received a message from the gracious Rajeev Kohli, Chairman of the Marketing Department at Columbia Business School. Contacting me through Meetup, an online platform for self-organization where I run the Future of News meetup, he asked if I had interest in teaching a course on social technology to MBA students. […]