If a tiger ran in the room, says Dr. Katherine Shear, we’d all have one. Fortunately, like the tiger, panic attacks can be tamed.

Duke University Professor Donald H. Taylor, Jr. says the worst health care policy option is the status quo.

Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver discusses the expansion of children’s rights through athletic competition.

According to Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics, legislation in the last twenty years has done much to open opportunities to children with intellectual disabilities.

Comparing the U.S.-Mexico border fence to the Berlin Wall, Dick Armey urges the GOP to renounce the “mean spirit” that has alienated minority voters.

Tea Party backer Dick Armey believes the movement that ousted a Republican Congressional candidate is actually resolving the party’s “massive identity crisis.”

Former Congressman Dick Armey maps out a Middle Eastern strategy that can help Republicans win their domestic battles.

“She’s everything that Hillary Clinton pretends to be: an independent woman making her own way on her own terms,” says Dick Armey.

If you want to be a winning Republican, says Dick Armey, rally voters around economic policy and keep quiet about social issues like abortion and gay marriage.

The ex-Congressman and onetime economics professor lashes both Republicans and Democrats for their role in the financial meltdown.

If Gerald Chertavian could do dinner with anybody, it would be the great civil rights activist, whose insights into social justice and grassroots organization have proven timeless.

Though the father of modern capitalism is generally associated with the virtues of self-interest, he also possessed a deep moral concern for our responsibility to help others. According to the […]

Returning to America after 10 years abroad, the founder of Year Up found himself alone and with nothing but a big idea. Here he explains how he turned this situation […]

For the founder of Year Up, asking this question of his students has yielded three concrete principles that are proving to work.

The price of 4 year universities has been increasing by an average of 5 percent per year, a trend that is both unsustainable and contrary to the needs of a […]

If the social entrepreneurship movement is going to be successful, an entirely new social contract will need to be forged between the private and public sectors. As the work of […]

Big Think sits down with the Founder and CEO of Year Up.

It’s a tremendous, disruptive opportunity for the individual as well as the industry.

Will she be the standard bearer for the religious right?

What is “Biblical capitalism,” and how is it changing the American right wing? Jeff Sharlet charts the rise of a juggernaut.

After another fiercely contested election, political scientist John Aldrich wonders whether America’s polarized politics will ever change.

Libertarians are not a threat to the GOP: It is not easy to build a large coalition against gun control and for gay marriage.

The author shares one of the “ranting inner monologues” that make him toss and turn.

With skyscrapers rising and infrastructure rotting, novelist Paul Auster explains what makes him “wistful” about his changing city.

The novelist believes that it’s “the burning need to do it,” not to be praised, that spurs great writing.