Modern workplaces, politics, and international relations can be complex: impossible tasks, conflict, unreasonable demands, temperamental leaders, and moral dilemmas.

A Middle Eastern nation controls a vital shipping channel and blocks major international commerce. It relents, then reneges, creating international turmoil.

Daniel movie: Standing up to corrupt elites will get you burned — here’s why you should do it anyway

When Trump and Moscow agree, you know the UN has gone too far

Senate Republicans can stop a private jet giveaway before it becomes a political liability

You work hard to advance your employers’ mission: sacrificing, caring, succeeding. Then you observe some leaders acting unethically. You approach them personally, but they disregard you. So, you blow the whistle and report their activity to superiors, who retaliate and fire you. How do you respond?

What lessons do these political and personal episodes bring? Doing the right thing sometimes brings personal suffering.

An ancient Israeli found himself highly placed in a foreign government with some........

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