In rural India, over half of all households don't have electricity. To light households and power commercial equipment, villages use kerosene lanterns, which are both expensive and environmentally harmful. But […]

A conversation with the founder of the Guardian Angels

"You wouldn’t be able to get married in my society until you were 30," says Sliwa.

Crime is under better control than it was 30 years ago, but recession era cuts to police budgets threaten the status quo.

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa demonstrates three potential scenarios for a wannabe "do-gooder" to perform a citizen's arrest.

Despite what "brainiacs" from the Ivy League may say, Curtis Sliwa insists that citizens arrests have been "embedded in the fabric of the law since the Magna Carta."

If you’re attacked, the best thing to do is "make the hunter become the hunted," says Sliwa.

Curtis Sliwa recounts in vivid detail how in 1992 a seemingly normal cab ride turned into a near-death experience, leaving him shot and bleeding on a New York sidewalk.

Globalization has transformed the practice and study of law, says Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School. American law firms have dominated the internationalization of law, but this has […]

The U.S. military is investing in all kinds of augmentation – pills you ingest, body armor you can wear, and machine parts you can add to your body.

Conservative commentator Fred Barnes has recently criticized liberal journalists for discussing ideas on a free, private email list. Barnes claims that, unlike the denizens of journo-list, he's a non-partisan conservative: […]

Most of the United States’ health care costs come from diabetes, heart disease and obesity—problems that could be fixed by changing our behavior.

When President George W. Bush came to office in 2001, the U.S. was sending $1.4 billion a year to Africa in humanitarian and development aid, including programs intended to foster […]

Lawyers will be much more fulfilled if they do some public service, suggests Kramer.

Kramer believes that firms hire too far in advance. They don’t know what they’re getting, and students get locked into their legal specialties prematurely.

As dean of Stanford Law, Kramer is trying to reconceptualize the three-year law program, emphasizing more practical skills lawyers will need.

The Stanford Law dean says the legal education system needs to do more to prepare students to actually practice. There are a wide set of intellectual skills that are essential […]

The expansion of the legal market around the world has benefited massive corporate law firms at the expense of small community firms, says Kramer.

A conversation with the dean of Stanford Law School.

Jayne Merkel, architectural historian and critic, locates the moment in American architectural history when less ceased to be more and inspiration was found in yesterday's buildings.