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The Generational Difference in Optimism: A Video Look
I hope you'll check out the second in the series of short films that The Atlantic’s video team has…
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Gawker, Hating the Media, Free Trade, and F-35: Today's Trips Down Memory Lane
Here are some items from the archive that bear on the moment’s news: Gawker and the future of…
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The Maker Revolution: What It Has Changed, and What It Hasn't — Yet
After these two articles on why the Maker Movement matters — “Part 1, the Tools Revolution” and “Part…
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FirstBuild Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution
Just like the internet before it, the Maker Movement is revolutionizing manufacturing, with implications for startups and jobs.
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Elizabeth Warren on the Second Gilded Age
This afternoon at the annual conference of New America, in Washington, I heard Sen. Elizabeth Warren give a speech about…
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Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm: Why Does This Ring a Bell?
Previously in the Hmmmm series, please see this, this, this, this, and this. The theme of the poll reported in…
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Hmmm, Why Does This Sound Familiar? Cont'd
Previously in the Hmmmm series, please see this, this, this, this. Now a very interesting analysis from John Sides in…
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Could There Ever be an ‘American Alibaba’? Jack Ma’s Biographer Explains What It Would Take
A few days ago I posted a first round of questions-and-answers with Duncan Clark, a longtime analyst of and participant…
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Startups Creating Jobs in the United States, Around the World — and Now in Cuba
Let’s get back to some positive news — actually, let’s connect the positive news I’m about to give, to the…
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In Which Warren Buffett Agrees With Me (or Perhaps Vice Versa)
When I was living in and reporting from China, I spent a lot of time trying to hammer this point…
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The Atlantic American Futures Master List: Some of the Hundreds of Places We Would Like to Go
“There is more going on, in more places, than you imagined.”
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Escape from False Equivalence in Today's NYT
Please be sure to read Binyamin Appelbaum’s assessment of a return to the gold standard, in today’s NYT. (Note: Appelbaum…
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Al Gore, Felix Salmon, ‘Sustainability,’ and Aspiration
On the eve of the Paris climate talks, let’s get back to “sustainable capitalism.” After my piece about…
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The Fresno-Detroit Link: Poetry, and the Unglamorous Home of American Dreams
Two days ago I mentioned that a “Fresno reborn” video had a similar tone and toughness to the famous “Imported…
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out?
Today the long-planned Chinese rival to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, made its debut in Shanghai. Huzzah…
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Wondering Why We Like Fresno?
For previous installments in the Fresno saga, please check here. Early last year, in our American Futures saga, we reported…
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What Is It Like When Al Gore's Fund Invests in Your Company?
The leitmotif of the pieces you see collected in this Thread, based on my article in the current issue about…
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Can 'Sustainable' Investing Pay Off? A Report from Wharton Says Yes
If you’re joining us late: my article in the current issue, about the Generation Investment Management firm of London, explained…
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How Investors Look at the Generation Investment News
Following my article on the implications of the so-far-very-profitable “sustainable capitalism” approach of Al Gore’s Generation Investment firm in London…
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Al Gore, Felix Salmon, and How to Think About “Sustainable Capitalism”
The new issue has my piece on the Generation Investment Management firm co-founded more than a decade ago by Al…
