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The “global nuclear renaissance” may finally be at hand. But can the technology be kept in the right hands?

Wind is becoming a more viable (if still controversial) energy source, but effective solar power may have to wait until the nanotechnology boom.

Pushing developing countries to slow development because of the energy crisis we’ve created is not just unfair—it’s dangerous.

A conversation with the director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

Will Paris and New York continue to be the standard-bearing cities of global fashion?

The concept of what is beautiful is becoming broader and broader.

Consumers have been changing their perception of beauty products since the 19th century.

A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.

The future of cinema in the age of 3-D blockbusters and digital downloads.

For his first “mainstream” film (“Rabbit Hole”), the indie director tried to make the kind of small, quiet art picture that defined the mainstream in the ‘70s.

Take Greek drama, Shakespearean comedy, and Kabuki theater, stir in some punk rock, and you’ll get a genre audiences love.

“An embarrassing kind of conformism” comes with full LGBT assimilation into the mainstream, says the actor and filmmaker. “Being queer is not enough,” he says “Certainly it’s not interesting enough.”

Awkward fumblings, outrageous coincidences, and finding a place in the world as a gay man.

Contending with discrimination and AIDS panic as part of the first generation of “out” gay people.

The “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator ponders the “ongoing understanding and quest” of love.

The creator and star of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” discusses what the project meant to him personally, and how he feels about returning to it 10 years later.

The filmmaker hates to think himself as an “auteur,” but prefers the relaxation and openness that comes with working independently.

How to be a director actors love, and an actor that won’t annoy a director to death.

A conversation with the filmmaker, actor, and writer.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic will still be with us in 40 years. But we will know a lot more about the virus than we do today—and therapy will be much more […]

In the future, there will be more small slaughterhouses, more small creameries, and more regional food operations—and we’ll be healthier as a result.

It took ten years for Intel CTO Justin Rattner to develop the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second. Between 1996 and 2000, it was the world’s fastest […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s company has a long history of intruding on users’ privacy, apologizing, and then scaling back. But it never scales back all the way.

When students are flunking in high numbers, teachers and administrators must take three crucial steps.

Andres Alonso remembers his school experience fondly. How can we replicate that experience for the next generation?

The longtime sportswriter talks about his personal style and who he’d want to step into the ring with.

The greatest baseball player ever was Babe Ruth. Not only because every home run hit after him “has his DNA in it,” but also for his prowess as a pitcher. […]

Steroids aren’t as big a problem as the press has made them out to be. “And if they are, we’ve got a pitcher on steroids throwing to a batter on […]

Heavyweight champions today are so anonymous that you could put them all in a police lineup in gloves, robes, and trunks, holding their belts aloft, and no one would know […]

“Sometimes the man’s IQ ain’t too high, but his boxing IQ is.” All fighters make mistakes in the ring—the great ones put that information into their mental computer and learn […]