A conversation with the director of MIT’s Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging

Many of us feel like frustrated bystanders in the healthcare debate. Jacob Hacker recommends concrete steps average citizens can take to improve their own lot.

The architect of the public option defends his healthcare solution against criticisms and counterproposals, including the co-op model.

Amidst a recession, two wars, and a climate crisis, healthcare reform has now passed its key test in the Senate. The architect of the public option explains why this is […]

Jacob Hacker assesses whether the President’s healthcare policy has been what the doctor ordered—and what his campaign promised.

Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker grades the 2009 House healthcare bill and predicts its fate in the Senate.

Jacob Hacker’s 2007 “Healthcare for America” was the rare academic paper that transforms policy debate. Have Hacker’s ideas themselves changed since?

Many of us cling to our “jerry-rigged” system even as it fails us, but early in his career, health reform expert Jacob Hacker saw a clear need for change.

A conversation with the Yale political science professor and healthcare expert.

Reihan Salam says the GOP can “win the working class and save the American Dream.” Will business and the working class really align, or are conservatives themselves dreaming?

Could nanotechnology ever help us build nuclear plants at low cost? Or will we have to content ourselves with novelty items like “nano-pants”?

If there’s one thing conservatism should conserve, it’s the rejection of government tinkering in favor of innovation at the margins.

Reihan Salam believes the Indiana governor practices the “politics of honest tradeoffs” the President had sought to embody.

Is the post-sexual-revolution man an improvement? Or does the “Mad Men” phenomenon signal nostalgia for something important we’re losing?

What’s left of the male breadwinner stereotype may not survive the recession. The results won’t be pretty.

Reihan Salam was raised informally as a Muslim, but isn’t particularly religious. So what brings out his “boosterish” zeal?

For the conservative journalist, high school debate was a transformative experience. We asked which pundits make the most formidable arguments—from either side of the aisle.

A conversation with the writer and fellow at the New America Foundation.

Contrary to popular opinion, men are just as likely to suffer from depression than women—they just repress it, sometimes with fatal results.

Males are less likely to make it through the embryonic state and more likely to develop a wealth of disorders and diseases.

The masculine chromosome is unique in its inability to repair itself, making it exceptionally prone to mutation and pollution.

A conversation with the professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University.

When Marvin Zuckerman was developing his theory of sensation-seeking, his college friends provided a handy prototype.

Why is isolation so dreadful for humans? As the clinical psychologist points out, it interferes with one of our brain’s basic needs.

As the psychologist explains, a very basic learning pattern stands as the basis for the increasingly violent nature of cinema.

A psychologist explains why those equipped with a strong novelty-seeking gene tend to exhibit unconventional thinking—something that is clear as much in street criminals as scientists.

Since the days of hunting and gathering, males have been hardwired to seek out novelty and risk. Yet in today’s society, this trait often proves fatal.

A clinical psychologist explains the biological basis of novelty-seeking behavior and its importance in evolutionary history.

Big Think sits down with the Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware.

David Lat, founder of Above the Law, recently surveyed working attorneys on their happiness levels. He has a few ideas for why the age-old cliché holds true.