When I was 20, I charted my life on a white sheet of paper: college, medical school, public health school, a career as a consultant with an organization like the World Bank, private practice, social change projects—and marriage and family, too. Forty-three years...
On Sunday evenings, my mother baked pizza, my father spread a white bedsheet on the family room floor, and my brother turned on the TV. As a family, we never missed 60 Minutes. The stories opened my eyes to politics, science, technology, arts, and more. I learned...
What does your heart actually experience when you watch live sports? A recent article in Scientific American warns, “Watching a game can raise your blood pressure and heart rate.” But, just as there are “good and bad” cholesterol, there are different types of heart...
I believed democracy was woven into our national DNA. But so much of what I held sacred has unraveled in this one moment in history. Suddenly, no norms are sacred. The unthinkable—using power to persecute political opponents, dismissing truth as inconvenient, and...
From left: Dr. Manoj Jain; Memphis Light, Gas and Water’s Vice President and General Counsel Jennifer Sink; former Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland; MLGW’s President and CEO Doug McGowen, and MLGW’s Vice President of Corporate Communications Ursula Madden work...
