Earlier this week I wrote that the Supreme Court was likely to take up a case challenging the Affordable Care Act in the next term. The Obama administration decided Monday […]
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Like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring in Tunisia began as a nonviolent protest for a more meritocratic society. The United States needs a new settlement, too. The problem now is that Americans cannot agree on what it should be.
If we want to change our society, we need to focus our attention on our women, says Sir Fazle Abed, founder of one of the most efficient microfinance organizations in the world.
Early this morning the Yemeni government released the following statement: The government of the Republic of Yemen announced today the death of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American born terrorist and member […]
Recipient of the 2011 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals Career Achievement medal, Alfonso Batres has worked to expand medical centers for the nation’s veterans.
Einstein released many theories during his scientific career, but it was the publishing of his two theories of relativity that literally shook the foundations of physics. The theories proposed by […]
As businesses grow, bureaucracy threatens to overwhelm the best efforts of the entrepreneur and his team. How can you keep success from unraveling your business?
If you’re a “true freelancer,” someone who freelances because they can’t stand to work any other way, you must honor your “true freelancer” nature and do it your own way.
How many times will Bob Dylan be accused of plagiarism of one kind or another? The latest accusations blowing in the wind involve not Dylan’s style or songs, but rather […]
“Women are conflicted in ten different directions today,” “Shirin” tells me. She’s an accomplished, unmarried woman in her 40s, living in Los Angeles. She continues, “They know you cannot have […]
Harvard Business School believes that people in business need to learn to follow passion, not just opportunity, and to understand power’s potential to corrupt.
So here’s the advice of the maverick philosopher: The solid bourgeois may dismiss as so much nonsense philosophy, poetry, and other products of questers and romantics—all the while subscribing to […]
Researchers at the University of Illinois have created materials that can repair themselves if they crack by pumping healing fluids around the material like the circulation of animal’s blood.
Tensions between Millennials and their employers are often classic power struggles that misleadingly manifest as an intergenerational culture clash.
The Kindle Fire itself isn’t groundbreaking as far as devices go, but it should provide the most convenient platform for accessing Amazon’s many services. It can succeed without killing the iPad.
In a post I wrote last summer, Amazon Needs To Show Me A $99 Kindle, I took Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to task for pricing his flagship proprietary product too […]
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have given a rat an artificial brain part—the cerebellum—thereby ushering in the era of true brain-to-computer communication for humans.
One of the world’s largest motor manufacturers is working with scientists based in Switzerland to design a car that can read its driver’s mind and predict his or her next move.
Wear and tear presents a unique problem for nanomachines since the devices are far too small for technicians to swap in spare parts. The solution? Make them out of diamonds.
The retired four-star general overhauled communications for troops in Afghanistan. Today, he’s a speaker who thinks business has a lot to learn from military management styles.
Yesterday’s launch of the new Amazon Kindle line-up was pretty impressive and has caused a stirr. Though Bloomberg apparently broke the embargo and published the news half an hour early. […]
It’s just willful silliness to argue that questions about how much of “our money” the government can take is logically incoherent.
When I searched earlier this month for exhibitions related to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I quickly realized that I had bitten off more than I could […]
The Affordable Care Act will get its final day in court soon. The Obama administration chose on Monday not to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a […]
For the past several months I have strongly criticized US policy in Yemen, arguing that the US is missing a key opportunity to be a force for positive change in […]
There are still people here in Georgia who do not want their children to listen to a back-to-school speech from that bad, bad man, Mr. Barack Obama, otherwise known for […]
A new theory suggests that the accelerating expansion of the universe is merely an illusion. The false impression results from the way our particular region of the cosmos is drifting in space.
Several mysteries currently bedevil physicists such as our inability to account for an expanding universe and an apparent exception to the cosmological principle of uniform laws.
Renewable energies like solar and wind should not be the government’s top energy priority, says the Department of Energy. The nation must reduce its dependence on foreign oil.
Last week, scientists at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy claimed to observe neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light. Now teams are preparing to test the claim.