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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Technology Alone Won't Fix Schools
To wonder what ails American education is to open a Pandora’s box of wicked problems … but the problem is definitely not a lack of computers.
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Reuters The Trouble With Sweeping Questions About the Internet
Pundits and scholars too often phrase queries that miss the point: The transformative power of any technology relies first on underlying human forces.
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Stephane Mahe/Reuters The Problem With the Plan to Give Internet Access to the Whole World
“It’s not as if anybody asked two-thirds of humanity whether they wanted to be put online.”
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Twitter Isn't Spreading Democracy—Democracy Is Spreading Twitter
We have free speech online because we have free speech offline, not the other way around.
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Carlos Barria/Reuters How Internet Censorship Actually Works in China
Studies show that the government permits some dissent online—but strikes down hard on calls for collective action.
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Dear Silicon Valley: Meritocracy Is an Ideology Too
The central political value that animates Silicon Valley is neither libertarianism nor progressivism. It's meritocracy.
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Our Equal Future: Does Technology Hold the Key to a Flatter World?
Far from making the world more fair, technology serves to reinforce, and perhaps even increase, inequalities.
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Our Future Might Be Bright: The Tentative, Rosy Predictions of Google's Eric Schmidt
The rhetoric Schmidt and his co-author Jared Cohen employ in their new book is clever but misleading.
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Q&A: The Culture of Medicine Runs on People Power, Not Tech
Improving global health isn't just about increasing access to tools or technology -- it's cultivating the right kind of people that matters most
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The Rise and Fall and Rise (Literally) of the Most Important Curve in Economics
Happy birthday, Simon Kuznets! (Also, you might be wrong.)
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Can Better Data End Global Poverty?
A leading development economist speaks on the virtues and limitations of a data-driven approach to healing the world's most intractable problems
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The Two Indias: Astounding Poverty in the Backyard of Amazing Growth
With the world's largest democracy in the embrace of a freer-than-free market capitalism, India may prove a bellwether for liberal societies everywhere
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What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Income Inequality
What would John Rawls have to say about Mitt Romney?
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Should the United States Be More Like Europe?
Europe has always been a dirty word among conservatives, but it's become a scandalous term in the GOP presidential contest. Are Americans so sure that we've built a stronger society?
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Is True Meritocracy Impossible?
We want a culture that rewards the most capable people, regardless of wealth or background. But when wealth and background play such a big role in our capability, is that possible?
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Income Inequality Around the World Is a Failure of Capitalism
A new OECD report suggests that inequality naturally grows from unfettered capitalism
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The Case for Happiness-Based Economics
We're familiar with the American trinity of life, liberty and the pursuit happiness. Washington typically passes laws to protect the first two. Should we start paying more attention to the third?
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The Future of Microfinance: Savings and Insurance
The world's poor need more than credit. They need real savings and insurance options, too. Can microfinance help?
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5 Myths About Microcredit
Myth 1: Microcredit is a proven path out of poverty.
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Twitter: It Won't Start a Revolution, But It Can Feed One
Technology magnifies the underlying capacity of people and institutions, but it doesn't change intent in and of itself
