
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Years ago I wanted to write a book, Another Woman: From Cleopatra to Marla, but now that seems to take us only halfway through the evolution of the mistress. After Marla Maples, who secretly dated Donald Trump for two years in the ’80s while he was still married to Ivana (before [...]
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Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]
Sep 13, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Politics, Social Media, Youth | Tags: #WakeUpCall, American Dream, anger, Arab Spring, Bob Geldof, brand, capitalism, change, consumer behavior, Crown Prince Haakon, Desmond Tutu, economy, Financial Times, frustration, global business, Howard Schultz, interfaith dialogue, Jamie Oliver, Joseph Stiglitz, leadership, Libya, Main Street, middle class, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, Mohamed El-Erian, One Young World, protest, riot, social justice, stress, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, Vanity Fair, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, YouGovStone, Youth | Leave A Comment »

On Monday, the new, redesigned version of Newsweek, the first with Tina Brown’s editor-in-chief stamp on it, debuted on newsstands. On NPR this week, Brown talked about how her career has come full circle, saying, “It was ironic, because I had abandoned print, having spent a life in print, and gone into the digital world. [...]
Mar 10, 2011 | Categories:Features, Media | Tags: analysis, digital, Hillary Clinton, magazine, Mashable, news magazines, Newsweek, print, print journalism, The Daily Beast, The New Yorkers, The Wall Street Journal, Tina Brown, Vanity Fair | Leave A Comment »