Unwelcome Visitors at the Ole Miss' Debate: the Ku Klux Klan

McCain has decided to go to tonight's debate at Ole Miss after all, but the controversy isn't over. Here's a piece I did for Time.com about the visit planned by some unwelcome spectators tonight: the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Will Business Schools Learn from Wall Street's Crisis?

Here's a piece I did for Time.com on the financial-meltdown story from my higher-ed vantage point. It's about how business schools are changing the way they teach risk management--and whether it matters.

21 Ways to Serve America

To coincide with "ServiceNation," the national service summit and Presidential candidates' forum that TIME co-sponsored this week, I contributed short pieces on voluntourism and conservation, among other topics, to this week's cover package. (One of the things I found most interesting: the biggest statistical difference between volunteers and non-volunteers is the amount of TV they watch.)

Getting Strangers to Pay Tuition

It's back-to-school time, and for this week's issue (the cover's at left), I did a Q & A with a rising NYU freshman who's asking strangers to pay his tuition $2.50 at a time. (It's actually working!) I also wrote a piece about him for Time.com.

Reading Sarah Palin

Here's a piece I wrote for Time.com about clues in Sarah Palin's own writing to what she might be like as McCain's Veep candidate...

The Clan McCain

For this week's issue (see the cover at left), a colleague and I wrote a graphic tracing John McCain's ancestry back several generations. My favorite part is that when his mother, Roberta, learned that her son had yelled obscenities at his captors in Vietnam, she threatened to wash his mouth out with soap--though by then McCain was more than 60 years old.
The online gallery is a little different from the print version, but click here to view it.

Democrats go to Denver

As part of the walk-up to the DNC, I have a piece in this week's issue (cover at left) about David Gilbert-Pederson, 17, the youngest delegate. He got his start making signs for Walter Mondale when he was 12, and now he's home-schooled to make time for campaigning.