By Babette Boliek
The debate over the National Science Foundation study of Twitter is getting off track. The sole issue at stake is whether it is appropriate for the government to fund Truthy — no matter how worthwhile it may be.
With physical copying now approaching digital copying in terms of ease, cost, and convenience, how will the advent of ...
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on 3-D printing. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), is ...
People on the right view nonprofits as a civil-society bulwark against big government. People on the left think that ...
In the United States, not-for-profit organizations enjoy a special status. Legally, they may apply for tax exemptions, and they tend to enjoy freedom from antitrust scrutiny. In addition, many people ...
In both Hong Kong and Taiwan, residents are identifying less and less as Chinese, a trend that troubles Beijing.
At the time of Hong Kong’s election for its next chief executive in 2017, first-time voters, having been born two years after the 1997 handover, will have known nothing but Chinese rule. When ...
Columbus Day is a most unusual American holiday and has become a day 'to celebrate not only an intrepid searcher but ...
The American Calendar project is a series of nine e-anthologies — one for each national holiday — whose stories, speeches, songs, poems, letters, and essays help us think about the meaning ...
The growing trend of public redevelopment has increased cronyism, land confiscation, and waste.
The justifications that governments give for subsidizing private developments are often dubious, but this was particularly so for a recent New Jersey deal. This summer, the state granted $82 million ...
Fifty years after the first rapid train began its scheduled service, this comfortable, safe, and efficient mode of ...
Fifty years after the first high-speed train began its scheduled service in Japan, it is remarkable how this superior alternative has not caught on in North America. Among modern affluent nations, only ...
No, but the CBPP’s stance on budget accounting says it can.
There’s a debate going on regarding how government budgets should account for risk. In an article in National Affairs, Jason Richwine and Jason Delisle argue that the federal government should ...
A superficial look might indicate great achievements. Yet a closer view reveals how far European renewables have to go, ...
“Germany produces half of energy with solar.” That was the recent headline on a German website of news in English, and it would have duly impressed anybody whose understanding of energy ...
Uber, Lyft and Airbnb’s regulatory roadblocks continue.
Twenty years ago, government officials were trying to figure out how to get the solo driver commuting in his gas-guzzling car to share a ride, thereby saving some space on the road and helping the ...
Peter Thiel’s Zero to One is a provocative and stimulating book, however, the Silicon Valley institutional structure ...
In Zero to One, Peter Thiel claims that what is best for the economy and for individual entrepreneurs is for entrepreneurs to create unique businesses based on contrarian ideas. Thiel cofounded ...