Topic: George Shultz

It’s time to end the failed war on drugs

By Sir Richard Branson. 6:26AM GMT . Comments . . Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has...

Lee's office tries to relocate Occupy SF

0 View Larger Image . Mayor Ed Lee's office is talking with Occupy San Francisco about relocating its tent encampment at Justin Herman Plaza to a...

Willie Brown

0 . For years, California's African Americans have been doing what everyone else in the state has been doing - moving out to the suburbs.. . And it...

S.F. weighs protecting ex-cons seeking homes, jobs

0 View Larger Image . Ex-convicts may soon become a "protected class" in San Francisco - joining African Americans, Latinos, gays, transgender...

Cable car fares rising a dollar to $6 on July 1

0 . The cost to ride a San Francisco cable car will go up to $6 on July 1, a $1 increase, but the cash fares for buses and streetcars will remain...

Global war on drugs a failure, high-level panel says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A high-level international commission declared the global "war on drugs" a failure and urged nations to consider legalizing cannabis and other drugs to undermine organized crime and protect their citizens' health.The Global Commission on Drug Policy called for a ...

Garchik: Hagar's AARP card

0 View Larger Image . Gary Hanauer forwarded the invitation: "AT&T and T-Mobile are getting married. After the ceremony, there will be no...

A very strong message

Voters take a stand on clean energy that the rest of the nation should followOil companies spent millions of dollars in California this year trying to convince voters to approve Proposition 23, an initiative that would have rolled back the state's ...
PBS chief Paula Kerger defends airing, funding of George Shultz documentary seriesPBS chief Paula Kerger says she doesn't regret airing a documentary series last month on former Secretary of State George Shultz that some critics argued was tainted by its funding ...

In the Post-Crisis World, Restoring Trust is Not Enough

This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS's Nitin ...