‘State of Minds’ Puts Research in the Spotlight
"State of Minds" scours the University of California for important research and then does something special: It makes it interesting.
Foreign Aid for a Frugal Age
There are international development programs that actually do help the world's poorest people. Dean Karlan can show you the proof.
The Magic of Re-reinventing Government
Before the ideological war over entitlement reform begins, Congress should look to the ways technology can reduce the cost of government. All trillion of them.
The Gadget in the Gray Flannel Suit
Generation S and the coming humanization of the digital revolution.
Desert of Fear
John Dougherty, a journalist who helped make John McCain one of the Keating Five, is running a long-shot campaign to replace McCain as U.S. senator. Along the way, both will have to deal with the immigration monster under every Arizona bed.
Counterinsurgency Training by ‘Virtual Human’
Using artificial intelligence and the graphics techniques behind "Avatar," a USC institute creates “virtual humans” and interactive immersions that train American soldiers to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Knowledge-Based Journalism Is Not an Oxymoron
The blandly titled Journalist's Resource sits on the Web, ready — with a little help from Harvard's Kennedy School — to throw substantive story ideas onto reporters' desks.
Can California Redistricting Reform Change Congress?
An extraordinary, nonpartisan experiment in redistricting on the left coast.
Adventures in Capitolism
Federal plans for a green economic revolution need more discipline — and a long-term partnership with the venture capitalists who know startup winners from losers.