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The car company was running ads about the Prius and their commitment to the environment while secretly lobbying in California against increased gas mileage standards.

A conversation with co-founder and CEO of Seventh Generation

The developer behind Winamp and the gnutella network thinks that we shouldn’t be able to patent something that is essentially just math. Software, like DNA, is so abstract that it […]

The developer still writes code on a Microsoft Natural keyboard from the mid-’90s, usually with one big monitor. He also reveals what he’s got against llamas.

In creating the gnutella network without asking the Web giant that employed him, Frankel was trying to “enable people to do things they want to do,” rather than trying to […]

In the era before iTunes, Frankel created one of the first MP3 players. He says that Apple’s product has “dumbed down” music sharing software.

The most productive programmers have an ability to cut through to what’s really important, focus on that, and then know when they’ve gotten stuff right.

A conversation with the software developer and designer.

Companies need to get better at explaining the benefits of their sustainable products.

Most businesses end up recognizing that it’s easier to implement sustainability measures than to talk about them.

A conversation with the Executive Editor of Greenbiz.com.

One of the greatest things about being a scientist is that you’re continually surprised.

Certain ways of interpreting certain scriptures have been made obsolete by science—but that in no way makes religious faith or belief in God obsolete

Become a Nobel laureate means you end up “meeting people who are actually famous.”

It’s unlikely we’ll ever get all thermal motion to stop in an object. But we can get close enough in many experiments that “it’s basically absolute zero for all practical […]

A conversation with the physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Unless you’re for first class citizenship for women, you’re “in support of the subordination of women,” says the attorney.

“I’m doing battle with some of the best and most highly paid attorneys in town, and often they’ll play dirty. It will be ugly. It will be vicious behind the […]

“In many cases there is no justice; there’s just minimizing the injustice,” says the lawyer. Doing so to the tune of many millions of dollars can have an “educational impact,” […]

Bringing a legal case against someone who is famous and powerful can be a “David and Goliath type of situation,” says the lawyer. But she’s “in the business of letting […]

The attorney says that there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when and how to use the media to help a client in court. “Sometimes it’s like an educational moment or opportunity […]

Women have made progress under the law—but not enough progress. And family law is rife with problems.

Milton Berle helped Allred become the all-male club’s first female member. Soon afterwards, she walked into the steam room with a tape measure, singing Peggy Lee’s “Is that all there […]

A conversation with the feminist attorney.

The economies of reuse and exchange will become a more permanent feature of our consumer environment.

We have not come out of the recession enough to stop spending money says the Foreign Affairs editor.

Britain’s role in foreign affairs has been in decline for a long time, and that will continue unless the country joins with other European countries in a very sustained way.

If we pull off our plan to “train and transfer” and win over some Taliban recruits by giving them a share of the government, the outcome will be a “very […]

The country is a “formidable opponent,” but the United States will remain the world’s leading superpower for the foreseeable future.

The American public’s interest in the rest of the world waxes and wanes depending on how close a crisis is to home.