There is nothing about Barack Obama's speech that demonstrated the knowledge - much less the embrace - of any technology advances from t...

Once people have a voice, they want to be heard. And social media has changed things from the TV model in which one broadcasts to many into ...

Brilliant little story in response to a picture that John Fugelsang tweeted. Scott Simon, NPR reporter, then tweeted that Gandhi had nev...

Average home equity went up about 84% last year, which would increase wealth in the average household by about 25%. Additionally, last year...

I encountered this extraordinary passage in Fawn Brodie's No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. Pushed to his limit by hara...

Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) is measured in this graph as the percentage of people 18 to 64 who are either involved in nascent entre...

Another Ngram . This tracking the frequency of two words used to, presumably, describe the same thing. By 1980 it seems that "make lov...

Apparently it's a 21st century term.

The Ngram viewer lets users graph the use of words in published books over time. After vying with "University" for top spot, ...

In Alan Greenspan's new book, The Map and the Territory , he reports a relationship between increase in equity values (stock, bonds and ...

An aging population is making the labor market worse on two counts. First, there are simply fewer Americans under 65. Second, the housing in...

Sat down on the plane Friday beside a guy who was heading to a genomics conference in San Diego. We chatted a while. Then I said, "Did ...

Channel surfing in a hotel with below zero weather outside, it boggled my mind how many detective, cop, and prosecutor shows are on. Law enf...

This week in a little burg in northern Michigan, I was running short of time and wanted to grab breakfast. All I saw were fast food option...

It seems to me that when it comes to economics, good political leadership is part photo bombing and part policy. This could bode well for wo...

"The human infant enters the world without information about what is edible and what is not," wrote psychologist Paul Rozin, who s...

Before his invasion of Iraq, Bush was working to enroll world leaders.  Here, Kurt Eichenwald reports on a phone conversation between Presi...