Josh Ruxin explains how improved family planning is instrumental for the future of Rwanda and the developing world.

Josh Ruxin Weighs in on the current state of Obama’s foreign aid system and explains the "visionary" measures needed to reform it.

Josh Ruxin, head of Rwanda Works, discusses how investing in agribusiness could solve a number of the developing world’s difficulties.

Josh Ruxin, Founder of Rwanda Works and Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia, outlines the success of foreign direct investment in the past, and its similar potential for helping […]

Though hailed as the "panacea" for the developing world, microfinance is dependent on a particular set of preconditions for its success. When regions lack these starting points, the system is […]

Josh Ruxin, head of Rwanda Works, explains how President Paul Kagame is helping to transform a once genocidal country into a center for commerce.

“Every joke,” George Orwell wrote, “is a tiny revolution.” That’s because what makes something funny is that it upsets the established order. The more subversive the joke—the more it says […]

Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, says plans for humans to control the global climate are premature.

Lenni Benson, a nationally recognized expert on immigration and a professor at NYU Law School, is confused about why, given the ascendancy of free market theories promoting the seamless flow […]

It was 13 years ago this week that rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, eventually being pronounced dead days later. In the years since, the iconic […]

Yesterday, while Americans were enjoying Labor Day on their myriad lawns and porches, we Europeans were (relatively) hard at work. The European Commission sat down yesterday to review Google Book's […]

As we speak, NASA's Kepler Mission is trailing the Earth in an orbit around the sun, spying into deep space and trying to find new planets in the "Goldilocks Zone"—just […]

Wall Street has a new gimmick. Buy a life insurance policy below face value and hope the policy holder dies sooner rather than later. "The sooner the policy holder dies, the bigger the return," says The New York Times. Will that sentenced be prominently placed in the promotional material? I doubt it.

I am sitting in Abu George, a hideout in the old souk of Damascus. It is perhaps the world's smallest bar. The joint’s avuncular namesake stands behind the small bar, […]

the need to have a good evaluation of what's left and to invest seriously in nanotech for energy , recycling , creation of synthetic ressources.

From this point forward,the only way to pass a health-care bill is through budget reconciliation.

As social beings, we produce the replicator which allows religious longevity.

"We need more nurses and more burn wards Fewer actors collecting dumb awards."

Research on tech to harvest unlimited sources of energy.

Each day the Internet feels like a newly published set of encyclopedias. So much new content, only about 16 waking hours to take it in, and really it’s only a […]