Nina Easton

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming…

— Nina Easton

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been…

— Nina Easton

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering…

— Nina Easton

Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives.…

— Nina Easton

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

— Nina Easton

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed…

— Nina Easton

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where…

— Nina Easton

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of…

— Nina Easton

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

— Nina Easton

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

— Nina Easton

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

— Nina Easton

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

— Nina Easton

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for…

— Nina Easton

Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a…

— Nina Easton

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey…

— Nina Easton

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church -…

— Nina Easton

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with…

— Nina Easton

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions…

— Nina Easton

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business,…

— Nina Easton

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no…

— Nina Easton

It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy…

— Nina Easton

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

— Nina Easton

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and…

— Nina Easton

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang…

— Nina Easton

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker…

— Nina Easton