Connie Chung

The documentary Girl Rising -- the title evokes uprising -- mixes urgency with great storytelling appeal. The latest moment of the feminist revolution is not about debating issues of women's equality in the workplace. It is about changing the world one girl at a time through education. Coming just after the recent PBS series, MAKERS, a history of the recent phase of the Women's Movement in America in all its diversity, Girl Rising asks the question, how do we nurture girls to bec...

Whenever a mess like the General David Petraeus affair blows up, I am asked by friends, acquaintances, students and journalists to handicap the state of play. The challenge is that no matter how hard I try, I'm lucky if I can get across one semi-cogent sound bite or bottom-line conclusion in most exchanges. What follows, then, are some observations you won't hear on cable TV about how crisis management has changed in the past thirty years - and not for the better. Change #1: ...