When we think family, we often think values, tradition, averages: 2 parents, 2.5 kids. But the concept of what makes up a family is anything but stable, says Sonia Arrison, a policy analyst who studies the impact of new technologies on society. And due to an unprecedented recent increase in longevity, it's changing again.

It took ESPN 35 minutes to remove its controversial "Chink in the Armor" headline about Jeremy Lin. It took Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra a lot longer to remove a political […]

Futurist and policy analyst Sonia Arrison predicts that as people live longer, healthy lives, new stages of life will emerge.

Earlier today I answered five questions for PBS' NewsHour on the elections in Yemen and what it means going forward.  Since I covered a lot of ground in the Q-and-A […]

Francis Tapon is the author of the new book, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. This article is an adapted excerpt from the chapter on Slovenia.

Following the meltdown of the financial system in 2008, subsequent economic downturn, innumerable investigative journalism pieces about the big banks and investment practices, and finally the rise of the Occupy […]

Bill Ackman describes the psychological profile of a successful investor

In January, super PACs out fundraised and spent their aligned GOP candidates.  Given that independent TV ads tend to be disportionately more negative than candidate ads, there has been a […]

In Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance,Michael Powers examines how risk impacts our lives, health, and possessions and how we can go about analyzing the uncertainty. In […]

Depending on which economist has the stage, America's economy is either experiencing slow growth, remains dismally flat, or stands ready to fall off a cliff. Nearly everyone agrees that the economy needs help. The nation's debt and budget deficits are reaching, or have already reached, fiscal crisis levels. Historians will analyze someday how close the United States came during this period to reaching the economic breaking point as a nation. Truth be told, some fear that the breaking point may still occur.

So far we’ve had Free Market Jesus, Cowboy Jesus, Mack Daddy Jesus, and Finally Come To Jesus as front runners in the Republican primary. Now we’ve got My Jesus Is […]

There has been growing interest in finding 'second generation' alternatives to food crops that "don’t grow on arable land and instead can be used specifically for bio-fuels." 

Facebook profiles assessed by a three-judge panel accurately reflected employee evaluations from each of the users' employers. Should Facebook be used as a job-screening tool?

The multinational corporation Cisco Systems estimates that mobile-connected devices will outnumber humans by 2012. By 2016, mobile connection speed will increase ninefold.

Since the Justice Department's actions against Megaupload, copyrighters have begun winning major victories over online file-sharing programs. The Pirate Bay remains defiant.

Start ups that encourage people to share their personal vehicles are becoming increasingly popular. Each offers their own system to entice you to make money from lending out your car.

            In his groundbreaking 1995 book Descartes’ Error, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes Elliott, a patient who had no problem understanding information, but who nonetheless could not live a normal life. Elliott […]

Online data security continues to prove insufficient, whether it is Facebook hanging on to old photos or Path uploading users' address books to their servers. Can insurance redress the damage?

‘Headline thinking’ -- which last week I defined as the natural human tendency to "equate the actions of a certain person (or certain specific people) with the actions of a generic […]