Benjamin Franklin when asked whether our newly-minted Constitution produced a republic or a monarchy famously replied “A republic, if you...

Scot Lehigh’s column in today’s Boston Globe, “In GOP’s incipient civil war, who is standing up and who is toadying up,” we’re invited to...

Corporate campaign contributions have been blessed by the Supreme Court as free speech and justified as a legitimate expression of corpor...

We each have been invited to affirm an oath, modeled on the Presidential oath of office heard yesterday as it is every four years, to tak...

Since launching Beacon Leadership Collaborative, I have (tongue deeply in cheek) thanked Donald J. Trump for helping me take the measure ...

Even as a global pandemic is taking hundreds of thousands of lives and bringing life as we know it to a near halt, we have been shaken to...

Two centuries ago, while serving in the Massachusetts legislature, Horace Mann invented universal mandatory public education to answer tw...

I watched The Lincoln Project’s "Mourning in America" video this morning and it left me deeply sad, with a healthy dose of determination....

There's so much coming at us about Covid-19 and it is hard to know what is legit and what's not. Here's what I do know. We all have to ...

If ever there were a time to focus on better public sector leadership, this is it! Our democratic institutions and our values are being t...

MAKIA – Energy flows where attention goes. This wise, old adage is one of the keys to leadership. Too often we spend time and energy on ...

For all the Declaration of Independence’s “self-evident” truths, the Declaration was in 1776 as it is today more aspirational than descri...

Jocelyn Lippert Alt offers three new corollaries to John Shedd's sage warning that "a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships ...