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Returning to America after 10 years abroad, the founder of Year Up found himself alone and with nothing but a big idea. Here he explains how he turned this situation […]

For the founder of Year Up, asking this question of his students has yielded three concrete principles that are proving to work.

The price of 4 year universities has been increasing by an average of 5 percent per year, a trend that is both unsustainable and contrary to the needs of a […]

If the social entrepreneurship movement is going to be successful, an entirely new social contract will need to be forged between the private and public sectors. As the work of […]

Big Think sits down with the Founder and CEO of Year Up.

It’s a tremendous, disruptive opportunity for the individual as well as the industry.

Will she be the standard bearer for the religious right?

What is “Biblical capitalism,” and how is it changing the American right wing? Jeff Sharlet charts the rise of a juggernaut.

After another fiercely contested election, political scientist John Aldrich wonders whether America’s polarized politics will ever change.

Libertarians are not a threat to the GOP: It is not easy to build a large coalition against gun control and for gay marriage.

The author shares one of the “ranting inner monologues” that make him toss and turn.

With skyscrapers rising and infrastructure rotting, novelist Paul Auster explains what makes him “wistful” about his changing city.

The novelist believes that it’s “the burning need to do it,” not to be praised, that spurs great writing.

Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.

Known for bending genres and playing with the paradoxes of identity, Paul Auster explains what anchors his novels in the personal and the real.

For a young future author, traveling in France after drawing a high number in the Vietnam draft, the opportunity to live abroad was as lucky as escaping war.

For “Invisible” author Paul Auster, writing novels never gets easier, yet he no longer dreads the blank page.

As costs run away in the legal and medical industries, pay practices are going to change, explains Ben Heineman, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School.

When the Israeli press uncovered a scandal at America’s largest company, former general counsel Ben Heineman was on the case. The first lesson he learned: take your head out of […]

Legally, General Electric had no obligation to the overseas facilities they employed. That didn’t rid the company of a moral obligation, describes Ben Heineman, GE’s former general counsel.

The field of economics will likely witness a wildly new approach to the notion of scarcity in the coming years, a good thing believes the Nobel Prize winner—but first let’s […]

Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics, yet Paul Krugman, another laureate, has confessed to never having encountered her work. Here she explains how we can move past […]

The Nobel-prize winning economist argues that, contrary to the widespread theory, with the right governance, humans are likely to forge peaceful solutions to coping with resource scarcity.

If given the opportunity to sit down with anybody, Elinor Ostrom would meet the late labor economist John Commons, who linked the individual’s rights with their responsibilities.

For Elinor Ostrom, the path to the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was fraught with challenges, but a commitment to great work and a group of rare friends, proved the […]

The writer often loses sleep over the dread of disappointing others.