Nicholas Thompson: All Content

How Memories of the Cold War Shape American Foreign Policy

Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

A Conversation on Innovative Entrepreneurship

Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Government Info Online

Book Review: Gregory Feifer's 'The Great Gamble'

Can Obama Use Technology to Transform Government?

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Reed Hundt Debate the Candidates' Tech Agendas

How the Next Commander in Chief, Whoever He Is, Can Fix the Things that Need Fixing

How John McCain’s Techno-Monopolism Will Hurt the Economy

A Review of Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier's 'America Between the Wars'

A Review of Simon Sebag Montefiore's 'Young Stalin'

A Review of John Lukacs' 'George Kennan: A Study of Character'

Could Iraq be Vietnam in Reverse? What George F. Kennan's 1966 Senate Testimony can Tell us about Iraq in 2006.

A Review of Anya Kamenetz's 'Generation Debt'

"War Powers," by Peter Irons

The lifelong friendship between George Kennan and Paul Nitze began with an accidental meeting on a train. It ended up defining the contours of US Cold War policy.

Most people think the atrocities in Burma should not be called genocide. Guy Horton is on a quest to prove them wrong.

Using sophisticated mathematical models, a group of four economists has proven that a country's legal history greatly affects its economy. At least they think they've proven it. How their sweeping theory has roiled the legal academy.

A village in Ghana -- and a new UN report -- suggest the Internet may be Africa's best hope

Wolves bring a surprising ecological recovery to Yellowstone

Tom DeLay -- a former pest killer who has turned his ire on Democrats -- has helped build a huge Rep

What the ailing record industry can learn from a successful subway musician.

His supporters are all young and white, but in Bryant Park Tuesday the former governor's campaign fe

a review of Gavin Weightman's Signor Marconi's Magic Box

College rankings have become a cottage industry. Which one should you believe?

a review of Robert Baer's Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude</

The president's free ride is coming to an end.

Science shows failure is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It was billed as a blazing attack on the president's national security policies. But the Democratic

His job is to keep a hawk eye on dovish Colin Powell. And he's helped turn Bush foreign policy into

a review of Sharon Beder's "Power Play: The Twentieth-Century Struggle Over Electricity"

Kojo Bentsi-Enchill believes the best check on Ghana's judiciary is information.

The growing--and dangerous--divide between scientists and the GOP.

A Million Federal Jobs are About to Open up for Young Americans. Can the Government Lure the Best?

Quincy congressman, a backer of aid package, says there's no conflict.

Why the SARS epidemic can't be blamed on highly toxic individuals.

A review of Philip Taubman's "Secret Empire"

The "honeytoken," an innocuous tag in a file, can signal an intrusion in a company's database.

Uncle Sam Really Does Need You. The United States government has a serious people problem. But it ca

A review of Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas's Open Networks Closed Regimes

Why Senegal's bold anti-AIDS program is working

Why helping Africa get solar power is good for America.

How to tell if the Internet mattered in 2002.

Can online political chat be fixed?

Where have all the new meds gone?

China's Unexpected Enthusiasm for Linux

Several young entrepreneurs are pushing Ghana into the Information Age and creating a precious commo

a book review of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's "Linked"

Can a band of biologists who share data freely out-innovate the corporate researchers who hoard it?

Can Information Technology Save Africa?

Third World Could Use an All-Terrain Wheelchair

Amid the desperation of a continent, technology offers hope

How the Internet is Really, Truly -- Seriously! -- Going to Change Elections

a book review of Peter J. Bentley's "Digital Biology"

a book review of John Cassidy's "Dot.con"

Are Corporate Influences Holding Back Scientific Advances?