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Kirsten Powers has a piece in the Daily Beast arguing that birth control doesn't prevent abortions. Her case is largely based on a blatant factual error. She writes: In the […]
The largest economy in the world is likely to stay slow even though the recovery finally seems to be gaining momentum. This has nothing to do with our current economic crisis and everything to do with long-term demographic trends.
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The first openly gay NBA player describes how his public persona was transformed from a "pretty multidimensional person" to "that big gay guy."
Parents should be telling their sons: “Work hard so you can go to college. Not only will you make more money, but it's your best chance to get laid."
Another week has blown by … and I haven't had a lot of new volcano news (beyond the earthquakes at Krísuvík) to report this week - just some images and books. […]
It's no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea.
Brazilians are among the world's biggest fans of Twitter. Now they are using it to outwit police over a drink-driving campaign known as Operation Lei Seca, or "dry law".
It’s not that the web is making us less intelligent...it’s that the web may be an enemy of creativity. Which is why Woody Allen might be wise in avoiding it altogether.
Here's what Democrats should be saying: Hike taxes on the super-rich. Reform the tax code to create more brackets at the top with higher rates for millionaires and billionaires.
President Sarkozy is accused of trying to win far-right votes as France outlaws full-face veils with its controversial niqab ban.
The Guardian: For the LSE, in thrall to a dictator, Gaddafi was pure roast duck. The school's association with Libya's leader illustrates the predicament now facing all UK universities.
Michael T. Klare on the collapse of the old oil order: Only the rapid development of alternative sources of energy...might spare the world the most severe economic repercussions.
Are the days of billable hours nearly over for lawyers? LawPivot is a site designed to aid startups find legal advice, by using a Quora-type question and answer format.
David Kirkpatrick talks to Jack Dorsey about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.
American ships are again under siege by pirates off the African coast. The Pirates of Somalia — we have the weapons to defeat them. All we lack is the will.
The quality of effective entrepreneurial leadership that I most admire combines a practical modesty with a frontiersman’s ability to step fearlessly into the unknown.
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Unless technology "offers a deeper meaning into your heart, into your soul, a deeper purposefulness, it’ll be vestigial, it’ll be gone," says the film exec.