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The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.

Part of the U.K.'s push for total wind energy.

Protected animals are feared to be headed for the black market.

Over a 100 North Korean ships have washed up on Japan's shores since the start of 2017.

So as semiconductor manufacturing has moved offshore, the number of people in this country who actually know how to operate those tools, who have the tacit knowledge has declined as well. 

In his new book, How to Create a Mind, engineer and futurist Ray Kurzweil puts forth a theory of the brain that is meant to demonstrate how engineers could build a computer that would mimic the mind.

In a paper released today by Harvard University, I analyze the career of writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben and his impact over the past 20 years on the  climate change debate.  Below is […]

How is it that such a persistent stereotype -- which is certainly not unique to Jersey Shore-- has been reproduced for so long, and continues to resonate in today's culture? 

In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins opens with an arresting analogy: “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going […]

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is sponsoring a video contest on the future of news to […]

If you haven’t heard of MTV’s newest reality show: “Jersey Shore,” then you might be living under a rock. It follows the (mis)adventures of 7 Italian-Americans spending the summer partying […]

Roughly 60% of Independents say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supported easing restrictions on off-shore drilling, according to a recent Gallup survey (figure above). […]

As the wake of destruction trailing the Gulf oil spill continues to look increasingly dark, I can’t help but think back to the speech that Interior Secretary Salazar made when […]

Oil will not solve our energy problems, but the government should listen to the states that would consider drilling from their coasts.

Long before the colonial powers arrived, Asia had its own centers of civilization, Mahbubani says.

The West cannot imagine a world in which it isn’t the dominant power.

Mahbubani’s Sindhi family was part of a small minority in the Singaporean melting pot.

If living standards are high and risk of ethnic violence low, why not loosen press restrictions?

Buying up U.S. currency was the smartest move China ever made, Mahbubani says.

Should they be transparent to the world? To the citizens of their own countries?

Wars, Mahbubani says, are a sunset industry.

Everyone wants to be green, Mahbubani says. It just has to be done fairly.

Only if you see the world through a 1945 lens, says Mahbubani.

With the Asian model as an example, moderate Muslims can take a middle path to modernity, Mahbubani says.

America shouldn’;t run away from new competition, Mahbubani says.

America should stop seeing multi-lateralism as a threat to its power, Mahbubani says.

His book, Mahbubani says, brings good news.

Mahbubani says Asians have rejected the West as a cultural ideal.

Give Asia time, Mahbubani says. Progress is coming.

The U.S. has squandered its intellectual honesty, Mahbubani says.