April 2016

Martha Joynt Kumar is a professor of political science at Towson University. She is the author of  Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation, winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award, and the coauthor of Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media. About Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power It’s one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing […]

Angela Duckworth, PhD, is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert in non-I.Q. competencies, she has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Prior to her career in research, she was an award-winning math and science teacher as well as the founder of a summer school for low-income children that won the Better Government Award from the state of Massachusetts. She completed her BA […]