The United States faced down authoritarian governments on the left and right. Now it may be facing an even greater challenge from within. It is hard to know exactly when it became acceptable for U.S.

With Arctic ice melting at record pace, the world’s superpowers are increasingly jockeying for political influence and economic position in outposts like this one, previously regarded as barren wastelands. At stake are the Arctic’s abundant

Instead of slow, incremental change from the business community, we need to fundamentally reorder the entire system. And right now may be the only opportunity. There are periods of creative destruction when an old, dying

Making 3D models of large real-world objects Take one piece of software that can stitch 2D photos into a 3D model, one camera-carrying UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), and mix well to impress and inspire. This

Hip hop is a fundamentally subversive genre In the midst of the Arab Spring there is a group of dedicated young hip hop artists who are using their medium to disseminate revolutionary ideas. This piece

“The clean energy industry in the United States is indeed poised for crisis   “The clean energy industry in the United States is indeed poised for crisis, as the bulk of the nation’s major federal

So bailing out the banks while punishing workers is not, in fact, a recipe for prosperity Financial markets are cheering the deal that emerged from Brussels early Thursday morning. Indeed, relative to what could have

A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at which the likelihood

Video animation of a missile-armed drone taking out an armored vehicle and attacking a United States aircraft carrier AT the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling

The news we’ve been waiting for—key decisions that will affect the cost of the Internet—will come this fall. Whether it’s the threat of rising Internet fees on your monthly bill, or the government’s expensive new

Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.” The new rules, quietly issued by the country’s Department of

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed.