Before signing up for the Humphrey Seminar, Dr. Bill asked us to explain why we wanted to take the class and spend the semester with the Humphrey Fellows. I sent this paragraph to him: I’m …

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is about rapid decision making and thin-slicing, which means making large judgments from very little information. It offers case studies and examples of these instincts in several situations, …

Just a few days after our Monday discussion on work-life balance, I read this apropos article from Time magazine. A law firm in New York told all of its employees that it would be banning …

My name is Audrey Weil, and I am currently in my third year of a combined Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree program at Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. My ultimate goal is to work …

Disruptive innovations displace accepted technologies and ideas, creating a new market. Some examples we discussed in class included Airbnb, phone cameras, and drones. But what about the brand new, entirely unique ideas that fail? Can …

I read “Violence and Judicial Censorship Mar Brazil’s Horizon,” a chapter about the rise of violence and wrongful lawsuits against journalists in Brazil. Brazil has the largest population of the countries in South America and …

We’ve come a long way since Selma in the 1960’s. Nevertheless, we are not yet a completely free and racially integrated society. The cities of Selma and Ferguson have become synonymous with racial divisions and …