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“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he’s the person who opens a door funny.” 

“The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”

What will it mean to have a dissenter like Chuck Hagel as an ombudsman at the top at the Defense Department?  

I kind of want to move to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Actually, not really, but I may visit more often once the new 2nd Avenue Subway line is […]

If you’d like to know what a good statewide 21st century school leadership development program looks like, have we got a podcast for you! This morning we had Episode 6 […]

Chuck Heinlein, Director of the Leadership Center for 21st Century Schools at the West Virginia Department of Education, will be our guest tomorrow on the 4 Guys Talking podcast. Chuck […]

“Chucky Fat Face,” artist Chuck Close admits to being called by fellow artist Richard Serra during their graduate school days together at Yale early on in the film Chuck Close, […]

We live in an intriguing era of self-disclosure.  Tonight, in New York City, the World Science Festival features a panel discussion called Strangers in the Mirror: “What’s it like to […]

Chuck Close on the passion of Brangelina.

Chuck Close on supporting the arts even in a recession.

The contemporary artist on selling a nonessential product

The contemporary artist talks about where he was when Martin Luther King, Jr. died and meeting Malcolm X.

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.

On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.

Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

On Sunday, a woman accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault in an interview with the Washington Post.

Not every butcher’s map has a Tenderloin District

You might think the debate over the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act is a classic confrontation between state power and individual liberty, big government liberalism versus minimal state […]

This essay was previously published on AlterNet. Last November, I attended a debate in the NYU Intelligence Squared series on the topic, “Would the World Be Better Off Without Religion?” […]

American University communication major Colin Campbell attended a forum in Washington, DC this week assessing the use of social media strategies in politics.  In a guest post, he reports on […]

Concerns about GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s diabetes drug’s links to heart attacks have been reignited after a Senate report urged the Food and Drug Administration to make changes.

Patrick Gavin at Politico highlights today Washington’s most influential twitterers. “In Washington, the social networking and microblogging service is quickly becoming part of the daily media diet — and a powerful […]

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”

The latest from Peter Leyden’s “The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050”, an essay series published by Freethink.

“It’s only natural for us to get America back,” quipped Kim Kielsen, former prime minister of Greenland, in 2019.

Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.

When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.

Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.