The article is important. Krugman rightfully directs our attention away from approval ratings and popularity -- measures that don't tell us much ab...

“It’s not clear he’s been a player on that much in terms of legislating, especially since Congress isn’t doing that much,” said Julian E. Zelizer, ...

The global Internet governance debate is heating up again. In light of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) 2014 Plenipotentiary Confe...

Retirement In Real Clear Markets this week, Robert Pozen described proposed rule changes from the U.S. Treasury that would increase flexibility for...

Historically, and today, how well a home care worker is treated depends entirely on the employer. Now, that’s finally changing.

“With Democrats still bullish about the gubernatorial races it seems they are redirecting his limited time away from Capitol Hill and toward the ra...

In a recent paper from the Brookings Institution, Income Share Agreements (ISAs) are proposed as part of the solution to address rising higher educ...

Saying that Amazon’s monopoly over books doesn’t matter because it doesn’t also have a monopoly in televisions is like saying that John Rockefeller...

While surveillance reform efforts in Congress are on pause until lawmakers return from the campaign trail in November, the costs of the NSA’s bulk ...

It is standard practice for navies to use retired ships as target hulks, both to test new weapons as well as understand how to improve the cobalt r...

Some of the tech industry’s key legislative priorities, though, aren’t so widely popular, or even well-known to the general public. Those issues in...

Julian Zelizer, a politics professor at Princeton University and fellow at the New America Foundation, speaking via Skype, says Ebola could end up ...

"Other midterms have taken place in chaotic times," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history at Princeton University. "Right now this is a prett...

In a nutshell, the Pentagon’s report says that U.S. armed forces need to better understand how a changing global climate will affect them, and just...

If today’s New York seems pathologically obsessed with its own beautification, then the city’s long-standing war against graffiti helps to explain ...

Yesterday’s meeting and public statement at its conclusion were both an indication of how seriously Obama is taking Ebola and the fact that politic...

In survey after survey over the last decade employers have complained of the difficulty finding workers with the right mix of skills. As a result, ...

If you have children under the age of ten (or know anyone who does), you know at least one person who’s bought an Elsa costume for Halloween. But w...

The time has come for us to decide (and to decide through action, not words): is community technology part of the sector we call civic technology?

If you live in an American city, chances are you're getting a raw deal -- paying more for broadband, and yet getting slower service, than your urba...

Frustration with state governments is a common feeling these days. Meanwhile, cities forging ahead, using digital technologies to transform citizen...