Next month, the Internet turns 25. It has laid the foundation for something extraordinary. In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg invented movable ty...

In the U.S., churches have the right to religious freedom. So do individuals. This great country was the first to institutionalize religious...

The NFL might offer a view into the future of our legal systems and baseball a look into our past. The NFL has instant replay available fo...

The deficit has  rapidly fallen from its peak of $1.4 trillion in 2009. This year the CBO is projecting the deficit to be $514 billion, and...

We'll know whether Obamacare is worth it at the next Winter Olympics when our athletes can compare their surgery results with those of a...

Philosophers talk about goods to have and goods to do. In terms of the good life, what you do has more impact than what you have. Economic p...

Pandora now reveals your political leanings to advertisers based on your musical taste. I kind of like that the Beatles and Johnny Cash are...

On 3 February I sent out this tweet: Since then, the market has moved from 3996 to 4241. That is, the NASDAQ is up 6% in the ...

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are on track for their best year since 2000 , the end of the dot-com boom. It's only February and alread...

Interviewing entrepreneurs about why they chose the city they did, tax policy got mentioned only slightly more than girlfriend. (Interesting...

Marc Andreesen and a team at the University of Wisconsin had this crazy idea years ago to put a graphical interface on top of the Internet,...

Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul want Congress to be able to challenge - and thus influence - Federal Reserve policy. This would be a disaste...

In his new book, Greenspan quantifies the degree to which ideas and not stuff are driving a rise in GDP in recent decades. I'll translat...

The unemployment rate is down 1.3 percentage points in the last 12 months, its biggest improvement in this century. It is particularly impre...

10X what the UK spent. 42X Israel.

There is, in educational fields, an on-going tension between the idea of education to prepare our nation's youth to become the employees...

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...