Larry summers

Dear College Students: You Can Be a Contrarian Without Embracing Trump

Expressing contrarian views about the need for more women in STEM — that is, dismissing social factors in why there aren’t as many women as men in whichever field – has long been a thing, and hardly just on the extreme-right.

Lawrence Summers, Former Obama Aid, Withdraws from Fed Chair Pool

Will Facebook Finally Put a Woman on Its Board?

Here’s a status update Facebook probably won’t be happy about: Several dozen feminist activists are descending on the company’s Manhattan office to protest that not one woman sits on Facebook’s board of directors.

Peres's Big Ideas, Tzipi Livni's Raw Politics, Sarah Silverman's Low Humor

Shimon Peres likes to bill his Israeli Presidential Conference, the star-studded international talkfest that he’s convening in Jerusalem this week for the third time (the previous ones were in 2008 and 2009) as a Davos-style gathering of great minds to consider the great issues of the day. And it is that, in part. But like most everything else Peres touches, it combines big ideas and soaring rhetoric with healthy dollops of raw politics and moments of unintended, embarrassingly low humor