As the Barack Obma attempts to repair America's shattered reputation abroad, he is met with resistence from countries that are still scarred from eight years of Bush. Right? Or, is […]

This week television series Battlestar Galactica travelled to where few shows have gone before—a United Nations summit. Sound surreal?  You can watch the full 2-hour summit here and see just […]

President Obama may have gone on Jay Leno last night to reach out to the everyday American, but this week the Administration has been quietly reaching out to the rest […]

In an attempt to mend tenions between city and suburb, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, unveiled his massive urban planning effort last week. Will "Grand Paris" serve as a […]

There wasn’t any lack of Americans enjoying an extended liquid lunch on St. Patrick’s Day. But surprisingly, the one day of the year where everyone suddenly becomes Irish wasn’t a […]

In the media’s continuing coverage of how the economy is ruining all the best laid plans of higher education, the New York Times asks, how many public research institutes does […]

Market-research leader Neilsen studied the opening and closing of retail stores nationwide between 2001 and 2008 and published the winners and losers. The most affordable consumer alternatives saw growth with […]

What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]

"He made us think" would be a very nice epitaph.

How a "literate preacher" crafts his sermons.

"Well I had grown up with everybody else’s expectations. And so when you reach a certain age, you decide whether you own those expectations or you reject them."

"Most of the black people that I knew growing up looked and sounded and talked just as I do."

As Noah Feldman shows us in "A Prison of Words," his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, "refinements" filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]

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Sarah Lyall likens it to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Know an exceptional young talent under the age of 25? Think they would be a good candidate for the web's most engaging global thought forum? Big Think is launching a […]

Old politicians never die. Now, they don't even have the courtesy to fade away. Are you ready for the has-been campaign of 2010? As the rest of the world recovers […]

The dean outlines his short and long-term recommendations for a sustained recovery in the US economy.

Explaining some of my personal artistic ideas and processes

While nearly everyone knows that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, nobody seems to know that March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day. While there have been some traditional Italian celebrations […]