Yesterday afternoon the Associated Press broke a story about a bomb plot from Yemen, revealing relatively few but still tantalizing details about a plot we still know little about. (ABC […]

The Obama administration has a pronounced tendency to give off mixed signals on controversial issues for an interminably long time before deciding on a particular policy to implement or a […]

Originally recorded May 7, 2012.

To solicit financial support from the public, something the government has made easier recently, it helps to create funding tiers that allow you to connect personally with your audience. 

For getting information, building apps proved a dangerous game for publishers. Introducing closed systems into the open Web proved unsatisfactory to readers, advertisers and publishers. 

A federal judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook does not count as constitutionally protected speech. It is a decision that has confounded some law professors. 

If we have access to the same facts and evidence, we ought to reach the same conclusions about any topic. What does it mean when we don’t? We’ve all encountered […]

When people think about the future, at least in many of the progressive circles that I move in, do you know what they think about? Gloom and doom. Generally, our […]

Senator Bill Bradley sits down with Big Think to discuss his latest book, We Can All Do Better, out in hardcover today, May 8, 2012. He talks about what it […]

What is the Big Idea? Dominique Moisi, a special advisor at the French Institute of International Relations, published a few words of advice for president-elect François Hollande inLos Echos. His […]

Editor's Note: In a previous post, Ali Wyne published the first part of his interview with Ian Bremmer about the main argument of Bremmer's new book, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and […]

As I wrote last week, the Breakthrough Dialogues launched in 2011 as one of America's top new thought leader forums, in part because of the cross-cutting ideological discussion and mix […]

Votifi is an online platform that encourages positive, nuanced political exchange. After you sign up, the website sends you daily polls through your browser or mobile device and creates a […]

In November of 1977, Houston hosted a national women’s conference to hammer out a broad agenda against sexual inequality. It was hailed as the most diverse American political gathering in […]

Economics rests on unguarded assumptions that need to be examined, says author and Harvard professor Michael Sandel. He wants to revive a debate over the role of market forces. 

What should Democrats compromise on this year? Absolutely nothing, says Van Jones.

While some concerns about GM crops are valid, refusing to pursue them while poor countries suffer malnutrition and starvation is irresponsible, says rights activist Isobel Coleman. 

The troubling chronicle of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has me thinking about the trial of another dissident who faced a life-changing dilemma of his own 2411 years ago in […]

Momentary enthusiasm, a few nice words at the inauguration, then gridlock: it’s the ebb and flow of electoral politics in America, and it's lead liberal and conservative insiders alike to argue that representatives ought to capitulate every now and then, if only for the sake of negotiation.  

Imagine that someone offered you something and said, "This might give you a short-term performance boost. If it does, we're not sure how long the effect will last but we […]