Technology has changed everything.

Big Think recently approached five leading international economists for their best predictions on when we will be out of the mess known as our national economy. Watch for their commentary […]

Talk of Obama’s biggest foreign policy engagement being only a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande seems unlikely in light of the close economic and diplomatic relationship the U.S. has […]

Warren is both “hopeful and pessimistic.”

Waziristan has not commonly been included in the central Asian conglomerate of post-Soviet and Islamic states stretching from the Aral Sea in the west to the Himalayas in the east. […]

The distinction between the social security structure in the United States and Sweden gives uncanny insight into why Sweden has the option of saying “no” to Saab’s urgent need for […]

Sure, Geithner and Barney Frank are idiots, and regulators are by nature “slow moving,” but one hedge funder, who works at an “already registered” fund, says it would be a […]

Dambisa Moyo on why we can’t let financial institutions fail.

Blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Tweeting and hard writing.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the power of the pen/typewriter/keyboard.

Coates tends to be much more narrative-driven when writing long-form pieces, whereas blog posts are more casual—almost like bar talk.

The blogger dissects the impact of crack on African-Americans.

Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates on hip hop as haiku.

The counter-narratives written by black historians and social scientists helped Coates to understand his identity.

Twitter is a great place to learn about philanthropy from a new angle.

Political debate jumps the shark.

Character in Leadership..

As a website devoted to providing an interactive, online forum with global thought leaders, you can imagine our dismay when we read Nicholas Kristof’s evisceration of “experts” in today’s New […]

Do you feel trying to be a truly productive person each day is worth the effort? How much time would you devote to improving your productivity skills?

Prof. Krugman VS Tim Geithner, To Whom will be right (part II).rn rn I hate to see Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ can even figure out a way to home deliver its newspaper to rural area, that NYT CANNOT! That worries me, in NYT almost every day it seems to me that the Columnists, in NYT write articles that aim at teaching other how to save the world. In realty they can not save my beloved (may be not his!) NYT from depression! How can make me believe their writing?rn rn rnrnrnrnrn rn