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When plans were announced last October to build a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia, Justin Trudeau couldn’t contain his glee. “I can’t stop smiling.” Indeed, it seemed that the project’s proponents had managed to successfully navigate the shoals of both Indigenous and environmental politics. First Nation band councils along the proposed natural gas pipeline route, from northeastern B.C. A few dozen protestors representing the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en set up a blockade on one part of the proposed pipeline route to remind Canada’s governments that while their First Nation’s elected band council may have agreed to accept the project, they had not. What happens when, as in the case of the Wet’suwet’en, elected representatives and hereditary leaders disagree? Like many First Nations, the Wet’suwet’en have two parallel political structures. The elected council clearly disagrees. The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the Wet’suwet’en retain Aboriginal title to their traditional lands. All of this came to a head last year over plans to construct a new pipeline that would bring natural gas to the B.C. That’s because any leak in either the gas pipeline or tankers would simply release natural gas into the air, leaving land and water unfouled.

A recent study by Randstad U.S. shows that the political climate is impacting stress at work as well as employee engagement and retention. Randstad U.S. found that 64% of people say political discussions at work have grown more heated over the past five to 10 years and 72% feel stressed or anxious when heated arguments occur. Here are a few ways to navigate the stress of politics in the workplace: Get clear on your work When things get heated, minimize other common causes of job stress and burnout. More than 35% of employees say they don’t know what’s expected of them at work. The power of sleep is one of the many reasons I’m so passionate about bridging the gap between sleep and career development in the theory and practice of career coaching. Think about how the disagreement relates to an area of your career development plan. If you don't have a career development plan, then it's time to get one to give yourself direction for the remainder of the year and into 2019. Working with a coach is an efficient way to develop self-concepts and research how your values align with company values. Heated political discussions can also turn individuals into office bullies and even cause you to feel undermined. The goal of career burnout coaching is to help you address your cause of burnout by implementing coping mechanisms that are proven to improve the way you think, feel and perform at work.

Occasionally, though, a purely cynical understanding of how politicians conduct themselves can lead observers astray. It was the smaller community banks with $50 billion in assets and less that make up the vast majority of American financial institutions and once accounted for most small business loans. Ironically, the only institutions that could easily absorb the costs of regulations favored by progressives like Warren are the institutions that were once deemed “too big to fail.” As Gordon noted, the effect of Dodd-Frank was to direct more assets into fewer hands and make the financial institutions the reformers said were already too big bigger still. That is paranoia, not politics. It’s not just conservatives who are celebrating a hard-won victory today. Yesterday, the GOP-dominated House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill aimed at improving the conditions in prison by a staggering 360 to 59 votes. The bill may not survive in the Senate as it is, but not because it goes too far. Senate Judiciary Chairman and Republican Chuck Grassley told reporters that prison reform could not survive as is unless it includes broader sentencing reform. But the bipartisan consensus about the necessity of criminal justice reform is bearing fruit, and those seeds were planted years ago by libertarian and progressive reformers. The liberal and conservative activists who wallow hopelessly in the perception that the political process is irreparably broken should rejoice.

According to Gallup, almost 70 percent of college students believe that colleges and universities are not friendly to free speech or representative of political diversity. But college-aged students still overwhelmingly favor having those diverse political ideologies open for dialogue on their university campuses. Now, a group of students at American University in Washington, D.C., have sought to promote ideological diversity on their campus by creating The American Agora. “Honestly, [creating the Agora] was as simple as having some ideas and wanting a place to put them at. All of us were interested in politics and debating issues out loud in our [dorm’s] lounge anyway.” It ultimately just made sense for the friends to come together and establish the Agora. When asked about his favorite column, Brad de Ramón, outreach director, said he most enjoyed writing “White News: Evaluating Charlottesville Media Coverage.” “I wrote [this piece] a week after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, V.A., last August. James seemed enthusiastic about the podcast, noting how much fun it had been to produce during the previous year. “I honestly think the sooner we get to expanding the spectrum of views and backgrounds further, the better our site will be for it. The staff currently features nine established columnists, and executive board members write columns as well. Alex de Ramón noted that The American Agora was able to actively recruit writers from the Class of 2021 which allowed the staff columnists to grow more.

Philip Bump, Washington Post National correspondent, talks about the latest national political news out of Washington, D.C. Karen DeWitt, Capitol bureau chief for New York State Public Radio and Fred Mogul, WNYC Albany reporter, discuss the latest developments from the budget negotiations in Albany. Manoush Zomorodi, host and managing editor of WNYC's Note to Self, and Stella Bugbee, president and editor-in-chief at The Cut, talk about her new series, "No Filter: Women Owning It Online" exploring how women see themselves online. Kevin Shird, once incarcerated for drug dealing turned activist and writer, and Nelson Malden, civil rights activist and barber in Montgomery, AL, discuss their book The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Day Activist (Apollo Publishers, 2018). Shird talks about traveling from Baltimore to Montgomery to speak to Malden about today's civil rights fights and what has changed and what knowledge has been lost.