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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 […]

“Half of us will write on bathroom walls in lipstick if it pays—women’s rooms with two hands.”

Today’s sportswriters don’t have the discipline that their predecessors did. “They’re writing quickly, so there’s no time for thought and cerebral thinking on an article. They’re just banging away.”

A conversation with the writer and sports historian.

The changes to our urban and rural areas will reinvent our education system.

James Randi has shunned faith since he was a kid spending collection plate money on ice cream. “If my dad and mom are up there someplace… I ask them to […]

The Yale computer guru decries the dangerous trend of know-it-all scientists (Richard Dawkins?) telling people that “religion is trash.”

Industrialism taught us how to be wasteful of material and human resources. We need to get out of this mess.

Jane Jacobs once said: “When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave.” New York doesn’t have to worry.

Our geography is an economic and political geography. It’s a geography of class, it’s a geography of political partisanship, and it’s a geography of anger. That “worries the heck” out […]

Whether it’s in service, creative fields, or agriculture, people deserve work that’s meaningful, pays well and uses their skills.

Richard Florida worries about the notion that you can rebuild Detroit around an urban farm. Why would you turn a great city into a cornfield?

Forget the “American Dream” for home ownership. We need a system for a 21st Century that fits our flexible and mobile economy.

The U.S. hasn’t been making much of the possibilities brought by the downturn—but most other countries have been doing even less.

A conversation with the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

What will ultimately drive business to prioritize sustainability?