It was big news when Alec Ross joined the White House State Department in early April 2009—the former Obama campaign social media star was the first diplomatic expert with a […]

Tom Malinowski has been keeping a critical eye on the Obama administration’s human rights policies: that’s his job as Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. However, he remains sensitive […]

Though Universities have been seen by many as a safe haven in this period of economic decline, their stability and worth has recently become a subject of concern. Following a […]

Next week, Big Think will host two groundbreaking panels on pandemic and genomic science. A handful of the world’s foremost experts–including Esther Dyson, Francis Collins, Michael Woroby and Boonsri Dickinson–will […]

Zeke Vanderhoek will start one of the most progressive secondary education projects in American history in two months. His mandate: create a model of educational excellence for promising low-income students […]

If there’s one thing pretty much everyone can agree on when it comes to legacy infrastructure, it is that, by and large, it doesn’t really work anymore. American interstates have […]

Are you a C-SPAN addict, an incorrigible policy wonk, a wannabe beltway insider and a religious Twitterer? Then The Atlantic has a list for you. From the Deputy Prime Minister […]