One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who have really been suffering in the last 20 years, and who need to be prepared and be given time to prepare for a transition to a very different type of employment that we may moving on to in the coming decades.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.