There ought to be a law preventing the computer hardware and software industry from shortchanging consumers, so that we get the full use of our equipment.
After years as the forgotten killer of children, pneumonia is finally going to have its day. Literally. Monday November 2nd is the first e...
I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.
The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.
American capitalism has now become rotten to the core. Gone is the American capitalist impulse's unique sense of fair play and adherence to a level playing field, accessible to all.
There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every year (an eye-popping 26% of the population). Compare that to only 3,400 cases in the UK, or 1,200 in France.
If the world learned to feed itself half a century ago, why are there now more hungry people than ever before?
Why not give? Easy. Fear, and fear is the ultimate prosperity killer -- you will never go wrong, doing right. And do right long enough and it will pay dividends that builds wealth, too.
There is no cliché I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea."
From the bottom up, the green revolution is already starting. In many states there are policies to help communities use clean energy. And this is where you can make a difference: through your local government.
Maybe because it's back-to-school time, I've heard from readers about a bunch of different education-related ventures. In fact, here's another example of a university and a New Radical working together.
Canadian privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is prosecuting Facebook for giving members confusing and misleading information in its end user agreement.
I've spent much of my life wondering why people who can handle a monthly paycheck will turn around and blow a large sum when they get the chance.
Can any of us afford the arrogance to operate as if our point of view is the truth?
To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.
If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.
If health care had benefited from a decade long push by a unified group of advocacy foundations, as education reform has, we would already have broader coverage and lower costs.
The economy is not a rational system: It is a scam run by an elite who control the masses through indecipherable rules. Get it? It's a religion, and a religious problem requires a religious solution, i.e. something crazy.
Irrespective of how educated or rich one might be, to be a black man in America is still a condition in which one feels he has no rights that any police officer is bound to respect.
Advocates for global health have their work cut out. They will need to re-group, re-start, and not let up.
Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.
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