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The Senator Who Came Back

John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania, is 6’8”, bald, wears a Carhartt hoodie and long shorts around the Capitol. He looks like a beaten-up wrestler from the WWE. For a successful politician he appears and acts like a man from another planet. But after reading a powerful excerpt from his new

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Profilometer

I’m writing this blog in my new favorite Starbucks in Flossmoor, Illinois. All of the employees are African American women. I am one of three

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Rocket Men

I’ve always thought space travel was cool and interesting, particularly as a kid, but I seldom romanticized it like so many other people do. I

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Current Change

How do you deal with change? I’m talking BIG CHANGE. Existential change in the way you do business. We are witnessing it being played out

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A Patient’s Perspective

Today I get to do my twenty-first straight day of radiation treatment. Don’t feel sorry for me at all, this is my fortunate opportunity to

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Man of Steel?

The tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration on foreign steel and aluminum are an intriguing bargaining chip from a macro economic standpoint, but a

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32 Pounds Ago

I have lost 32 pounds over the last four months, and I am stunned. It has not been that hard to do once I decided

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