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The economist presents the "Prestowitz plan"—a to-do list for how we can play our cards better.
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The fact that we can just keep printing dollars allows us to be irresponsible. As a result, we over-consume, over-spend, and over-borrow.
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We're depleting our resources and innovative energy in order to develop specialized products and technologies we don't actually want to use.
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From 1800 to 1950, we acted, economically, the way China is acting today.
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A conversation with the President of the Economic Strategy Institute.
"Why do males of some species attend to their offspring prolongedly, while others tend to spring off post-coitally?" asks Natalie Angier. The answer may relate to the varying social role of infants.
It is an event with which I am slightly ashamed—and even the excuse that it happened over twenty years ago and that I was only a bit player does not […]
"The poor need not always be with us. That goal can be achieved if we ensure that workers are paid enough to feed their families," says The L.A. Times, whose city has pioneered legislation on the living wage.
Charles Krauthammer disputes the Obama administration's claims that Iran is more isolated in the world. Russia, China, Brazil and Turkey have all sought to assist Iran with its energy ambitions.
"Researchers determined that the lunar water likely originated early in the moon's formation history, suggesting that it is, in fact, native to the moon," reports the Christian Science Monitor.
Although this week is Homeopathy Awareness Week, Edzard Ernst at The Guardian finds the medical practice more threatened than ever as scientific establishments attack its medicinal claims.
By all officials estimates, the Earth's population is scheduled to grow rapidly during the coming decades, but this long-term problem ill-suits short term political careers, says The Independent.
Skeptic Michael Shermer thinks we deceive ourselves because "we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false patterns."
Contrary to popular belief, high crop yields created by industrialized farming have greatly slowed global warming by preventing deforestation for new farmland, says a new study from the Carnegie Institution.
"Fossilized corals and lasers beamed at a receding moon have revealed that over the ages the length of time it takes Earth to spin once on its axis has increased significantly."
More legislative oversight is needed to control the unofficial expansion of the U.S. forensic DNA database to ensure that innocent citizens are not unfairly implicated in crimes, says Slate.com.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released over two thousand pages of its files on former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, who died last year after a battle with brain cancer. […]
Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly has served as a style icon for decades, but the subtle complexities of Truman Capote’s heroine are less discussed. Today’s Times review of Sam Wasson's new […]
Toddlers in tiaras are so passe. Poodle pageants are this season's hot new reality phenom. Extreme Poodles premiered on TLC yesterday. This is no ordinary dog show. We're talking poodle […]
Against-the-grain linguist Guy Deutscher thinks that language isn't completely a product of nature, but that it influences how we perceive the world and, in turn, how we express it.