One simple distinction for leaders is eloquence. Bill Clinton was the best speaker I've heard in politics. Obama created a similar confi...

This week Google joined Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in the trillion-dollar valuation club.  Location matters. Microsoft and Amazon headquar...

Each month bls.gov releases the new jobs numbers. "The economy created 130,000 jobs last month." The technical title for this jobs...

I've heard and read concern about the millions of truck drivers who could lose their jobs to self-driving trucks. Here are two reasons ...

In a Facebook conversation yesterday, I pointed out to a Trump supporter that believing Trump means that you have to discount the CIA, the N...

Let us say that you were a complete hedonist. You only did what made you feel good. Wouldn't you still do things for other people? Give...

As managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, Venture Capitalist Scott Kupor argues that much of the gains from startups have shifted from lat...

Trump creates so much daily chaos that it is easy to lose track of why Congress has moved ahead with impeachment hearings. A simple analogy ...

My ideal candidate would take the following positions on these issues. Economics Make it easy for entrepreneurs to succeed. incubator...

Learned something curious from Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment , a book I picked up from the Harvard Bookstore a week ago. Medieval pries...

Stephen Covey's 4th habit is the building block to relationships. It also gives us a way to better understand the danger of Trump. Thi...

Robert Wright's Nonzero forms one of the foundations to my worldview. The other day he interviewed Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy ...

One of the things that neo-nationalism might signal is a hunger for common culture. We all listen to different music, read and watch differe...

From about 1830 to about 1900, the Democratic party was all madness and defense of the agricultural economy and the Republicans were the pro...

Nerd that I am, I collected some data on the 15 congressional districts where Trump won the largest percentage of votes and the 15 districts...

When it comes to how we're wired, liberals prioritize equality and care while conservatives focus more on loyalty, authority and purity....

In 1642, Galileo died and Newton was born. That's still a poignant symbol of the hand off from Italy to Britain for progress. In 1500,...

It's not just that we're getting more specialized in our work. We're also getting more specialized in our consumption. My lunch ...

This morning the new GDP numbers were announced here . The numbers compare the second quarter of 2019 with the second quarter of 2018. GD...

When it comes to politics, there are a lot of people who believe that the truth lies somewhere in the middle and that if only we listened to...