According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, total healthcare spending has historically grown 2.5 percentage points faster than the economy. Healthcare already makes up 18% of the US gross domestic product; if the trend continues, ...
What's going on? All along I thought hordes of angry young men posed the greatest threat to society. Experts are always telling us to worry about the social menace from brooding young Turks with too much energy and time on their hands. They commit the lion's share of crimes and terrorist acts. They generally have the least to lose.
It takes fewer airwaves to transmit a digital signal than it does an analog one, which means companies can use the reclaimed airwaves to enhance the way we communicate, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at the New ...
Your neighbor needs your help. Do you have it within you to lend a hand? Will you book yourself a week on the beach in Cabo or Puerto Vallarta, or explore Mexico City or one of the colonial cities in the heart of Mexico? You know, for the common good.
This has been a banner decade for empathy tourism -- many Americans flocking to New York after 9/11 and to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did so with a sense… more
Tim Wu, a professor of Internet law the chairman of Free Press, a media reform group, said that more and more, decisions about free speech are being made online. Websites such as Google, Facebook and Wikipedia now act as gatekeepers of information. ...
President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice has been widely hailed as a triumph for Latinos. But it could just as likely spell the end of the very idea that there is such a thing as Latino America at all.
Here's one pair of complaints airing more often than "Law & Order" reruns: Why does California keep having special elections? And why are we forced to digest so many measures on the same ballot?
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator now with the New America Foundation in Washington, said one key question was what impression of Obama Netanyahu took away. "Did he see him as a rookie pushover . . . or as a serious guy who's determined ...
In less than 24 hours, you're going to be hearing the righteous indignation of all sorts of California pundits and policy types. They'll no doubt be shouting about an embarrassingly low turnout in Tuesday's statewide special election and the astounding ignorance on the part of those who did vote. Though not completely without merit, their rantings also will be part and parcel of the problem they're condemning: Our political elites are burdening the public with too much democracy.
