I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform..

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me ….

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood ….

The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxe….

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job..

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-cou….

The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each o….

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something….

It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - a….

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American ba….

Every previous era looks innocent..

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The p….

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, ….

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries..

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality,….

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure..

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job..

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view..

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. ….

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese….

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage..