Technology & Innovation

If you have been reading the op-ed pages lately, you have begun to notice in the last week or so that a subtle change in their rhetoric is taking place. […]

The U.S. Treasury has unveiled a redesigned $100 bill, with new features “aimed at thwarting counterfeiters armed with ever-more sophisticated computers, scanners and color copiers.”

This Monday marked the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma city bombing, an attack which killed 168 people and injured 680 more. As we know now (and as we were reminded […]

Is there anything we can do about the global increase in tropical storms? Ernst Weizsäcker, co-chair of the U.N.’s International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, thinks Hurricane Katrina may have […]

Has President Obama given up on being bipartisan? New Yorker editor David Remnick, author of the new Obama biography “The Bridge,” thinks that while the President’s political personality “aims toward […]

“Individuals and businesses who are feeding a $700 million global market in offsets are often buying vague promises instead of the reductions in greenhouse gases they expect,” writes Doug Struck.

To promote greater transparency, Google is creating a tool to give people information about government requests for content removal and user data.

The adoption of enhanced incentives for domestic enterprise in the Third World may help poor countries compete in the global marketplace, writes David Landes.

I have good news and bad news on the JUNO front. The bad news is that my partner, Darcy James Argue, and Secret Society didn’t take home the statuette for […]

There’s no shame in making money. Making money is, after all, every company’s goal. And when our companies do well, that’s generally good for the country. Under normal circumstances Goldman […]

When it comes to finding a successor for a top executive, an “inside outsider” might be the best option. As Harvard Business School Professor Joe Bower explains in his Big […]

While political debates might suggest that the question of climate change is yet unresolved, the world of industry and commerce is convinced that global warming is real, and imminent.

“No matter where consumers buy books, their belief that electronic media should cost less—that something you can’t hold simply isn’t worth as much money—will exert a powerful force,” writes Ken Auletta.

“While most of the blame for the crisis should reside with those in the financial markets … a considerable portion of it lies with the economics profession,” writes Joseph Stiglitz.

Henry Luce’s magazines were shaped by the Time founder’s “commitment, energy, moral inquiry, and high purpose; and … arrogance, impatience, didacticism, and occasional dogmatism.”

We have been repeatedly disappointed in our hopes that economic liberalization in China and Russia would pave the way for media liberalization, writes Mark Gimein.

There’s been no end of talk these past few weeks about the iPad’s revolutionary potential: how you don’t have to choose between a smart phone and a laptop any more, […]

Where has the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) been? Many of the trades that led to the financial meltdown were legal, but many clearly were not. Even if you can’t […]

A columnist at Bloomberg News cannot see how Goldman Sachs will escape its SEC fraud charges or rebuild its tarnished reputation.

Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told the Senate this week that we need to allow the biggest banks to fail. McConnell explained that he opposes the financial industry reform […]

Economists Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff say that people in their 20s and 30s should take out all of their retirement savings and buy stocks on margin.

Why are developing countries now becoming hotbeds of business innovation? Perhaps it is because local companies are “dreaming bigger dreams.”

It has been a bad ten years for the economy. It may in fact have been the worst decade since the 1930s. As I’ve written, the current recession is in […]

“There is huge potential for iPad apps (or any other apps for that matter) to become the books of the 21st century.” writes Marion Menaker.

Two major journalism prizes were recently announced and the winners say some interesting things about the state of the profession. The University of Oregon’s Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism […]

Samuel Culbert writes that companies should do away with regularly scheduled performance reviews because they are “fraudulent” and reinforce an employee’s feelings of being dominated.

Republicans have been giddy about their prospects in the midterm elections, but Democrats could be saved if the economy recovers over the summer, writes James Surowiecki.

Tea Partiers, Three Percenters, Truthers, Minutemen, Oath Keepers, and now Hutaree: the list of extreme right groups seems to get longer every day, and the media could be helping to […]

Several media and technology sources recently reported on The Huffington Post’s intentions to aggregate and curate Twitter entries (Tweets), categorizing them into the 19 sections The Huffington Post already covers, […]

Having analyzed the economics of fighting climate change, Paul Krugman concludes that the costs are manageable. “All we need now is the political will.”