For any aspiring GOP candidate, prepwork for running for the presidency involves coming up with bold new ways to say how they would shrink the power of the office they seek to hold. This year's GOP crop have been no exception, with various candidates putting forward hit lists of...

But for the housing bubble that temporarily camouflaged our "winner take all" economy, the resentments that produced Occupy Wall Street might have themselves bubbled to the surface many years earlier. Published back in 1998, my book, The Future in Plain Sight, contained a chapter on the wage gap, which...

How can a society that contains so much individual brilliance act so collectively dumb? Does it matter that we know that there is a cliff ahead if we still go racing off the edge? The Wikileaks publication of State Department e-mails demonstrated that there is tremendous expertise at the...

At first I thought it was a version of the granfalloon, the term Kurt Vonnegut invented to describe a striking but meaningless encounter: my brother-in-law, Jim Rasenberger and I both have books coming out within two weeks of each other. My book, The Ragged Edge of the World, is a...

If ever there was a year for a Democratic president to be elected, this was it - a war without end, imploding economy, the most unpopular incumbent in living memory, etc. --but a black Democrat? Even given the revulsion over the mess the GOP has created, it's still hard to...

Former colleagues and friends hint that Scott McClellan's White House tell-all book, What Happened, reflects the influence of liberals during the editing process. "Something changed," said Ari Fleischer on NPR on May 28, "...parts of the book just don't sound like Scott to me."

Excerpts from Scott...

We are in the beginnings of the collapse of a fiat currency. Actually, it's the collapse of a type of credit that has been treated as though it was currency, but it's rise and fall closely mimics the natural history of fiat currencies. Back in the 19th century banks would...

I lead two lives. Three days a week, I'm employed as chief investment strategist for a hedge fund that specializes in distressed and bankrupt situations. The rest of my time, I do what I've done for decades, which is to write about nature and the environment. There is virtually no...

Envision the perfect enemy: someone menacing enough to rally your supporters, but blundering enough to be manipulated into fighting on your terms. If Osama bin Laden went through this thought experiment, his prayers were answered when George W. Bush was elected President of the United States.

Let's say that you...