Wednesday, November 23, 2016

A Law School Dean Offers Grief Counseling to "Hysterical" Students after Trump Wins: Legal Reasoning Suffers

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Michael Schwartz, dean of the law school at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock announced in November, 2016 that he would resign the...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Courts Go After Gerrymandering: Deconstructing a Conflict-of-Interest

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In the U.S., the boundaries of both federal (e.g., U.S. House of Representatives) and state legislative districts are redrawn every ten yea...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

The Trump Organization and a President Trump: Minimizing the Exploitation of Conflicts of Interest

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In a matter of days after his being elected as President of the United States, Donald Trump decided to put his business empire in the han...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Transforming Transformational Leadership: Foundations over Ideology

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James Burn’s concept of transformational leadership is in essence a process in which “one or more persons engage with others in such a way ...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Getting an Election So Wrong: The American Media and Pollsters in 2016

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“After projecting a relatively easy victory for Hillary Clinton with all the certainty of a calculus solution, news outlets like The New Yo...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

California and Britain: “Calexit” and “Brexit”?

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Nearly six months after a majority of British voters voted to secede from the E.U., interest was building among Californians on the possib...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Societal Norms Understating Unethical Corporate Cultures: The Case of Wells Fargo

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The case of Wells Fargo suggests that even when a massive scandal is revealed to the general public, the moral depravity of a company’s cu...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Organizational Conflicts of Interest and National Interest: The Case of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation

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Organizational lapses, such as in non-profits or companies, regarding institutional conflicts of interest can extend in impact as far as di...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Iceland’s Pirate Party on Systemic Change in Developing Democracy

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Rarely does systems theory become a political issue; instead, political parties and their respective candidates brandish policy positions g...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Wallonia Threatens to Veto the E.U.-Canada Trade Treaty: Complicating State Sovereignty in the E.U.

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"The European Union and Canada signed a far-reaching trade agreement on [October 30, 2016] that commits them to opening their mar...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

An Anti-Obesity, Anti-Poverty Philanthropist Joins PepsiCo.’s Board: A Case of Reform from Within

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In October 2016, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, became the newest member of PepsiCo’s board of   directors. Whereas Walke...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

CO2 Record-Level in Atmosphere: Implications for Human Population

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In 2015, average global CO2 levels for the year surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time, the WMO revealed in its 2016 annual   G...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

AT&T Buys Time Warner: An Expansive Strategy Amid Industry Uncertainty

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After Comcast’s $30 billion takeover of NBCUniversal and Verizon’s acquisitions of the Huffington Post and Yahoo, AT&T agreed on Octobe...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Apple’s iPhone and the FBI: Recalibrating the Right-to-Privacy

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On February 29, 2016, a federal judge rejected the FBI’s request to unlock the work-issued iPhone 5c of Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Saudi Arabia Beheads a Member of the Royal Family: Justice for All, Atrociously

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On October 18, 2016, Saudi Arabia executed a member of the royal family for committing murder during a brawl. Prince Turki bin Saud bin Tur...