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Anne-Marie Slaughter • Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Why Women Cant Have It All, Anne Marie Slaughter
A reflection on the challenges women face balancing high-powered careers and family life, highlighting societal pressures, systemic barriers, and the need for cultural shifts to support work-life balance for all.
LinkEurope, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
As the example of the late Soviet Union illustrated so well, until a few years ago it was possible for states to exercise great power in the world even while wasting resources on a massive scale. When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones. Those governments t
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Russia’s appearance of strength, however, belied significant weaknesses that cut across its economy, demographics, public health, and social services. As former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright has observed, Putin’s Russia played a poor hand well.71 The United States and its allies, particularly in Europe, played a much better hand poorly
... See moreH. R. McMaster • Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
Following the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of a common threat, it has proved more difficult for Europe to maintain stability, democracy, and prosperity.
Richard Haass • The World
Strategy requires a sense of the whole that reveals the significance of respective parts.