Op-Ed Contributor Why China’s Political Model Is Superior Shanghai THIS week the Obama administration is playing host to Xi Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent. The world’s most powerful
I first met Madelyn “Maddie” Parlier in the “clean room” of Standard Motor Products’ fuel-injector assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina. Like everyone else, she was wearing a blue lab coat and
AM Renault/Flickr Listen to a narrated version of this essay: The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem
Twitter’s announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury around the Internet. Commentators, activists, protesters and netizens have said it’s “ very bad news ” and claim to be “ #outraged ”. Bianca Jagger, for one, asked how to go about…
Opinion Do Drones Undermine Democracy? Unmanned aircraft at an American base in Afghanistan in 2011. Credit... Larry Towell/Magnum Photos Washington IN democracies like ours, there have always been de
The iEconomy How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. Credit... Donald Chan/Reuters When Barack Obama joined Sil
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management “Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Mana
Programming for Children, Minus Cryptic Syntax When Howard Abrams, a software engineer in Beaverton, Ore., wanted to teach his daughter, now 10, and son, now 8, how to program computers, he thought of
(Photo by Pen Waggener) Just after the election of 2008, the Nobel laureate liberal economist Paul Krugman made a prophecy: we will not restore prosperity, he warned in The New York Review of Books, “
Spokes Racing in Bars, Going Nowhere Fast STATIONARY Bobby Lea, above right, center, an Olympic cyclist, won a recent race at the Parkside Lounge; Evan Murphy crashed. Credit... Michael Kirby Smith fo
Don’t miss out on our Labor Day sale! Subscribe now for unlimited access ⇛ q and a Jordan Firstman Could Never Have Written Rotting in the Sun ’s Jordan Firstman The social media star on his hyper-met
Today, while idly scanning Google News for articles about Netflix, I came across this from Colette Martin at Forbes : I can't help but wonder if the company has a strategy. A lot of damage has been do
When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, he didn’t really have any toys, so he made his own, out of wood and string. He put on performances with homemade puppets and made cartoon flip-books. He pretended th
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials’ struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,” we would sit back and chortle at our…
A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead A mother describes the surprising effect that the pharmaceutical sleeping drug Ambien has had on her brain-damaged son. The moment she saw him, Judy Cox knew her son wa
If you came here having been told that this is an article about how the cheeseburger was “impossible” until recently, please note that it is not. It is about how the cheeseburger as we know it today
Photo courtesy of the White House They still called him Junior when we first met, in forlorn Midland, Texas, back in July 1986. He was known then for being the son of the vice president of the United
A Better Way to Think About the Bailout, Jobs, and Taxes
The protestors taking part in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations around the country, despite their disparate backgrounds, seem to have settled on a recurring theme: fairness. It is not fair that Wall Street employees got a bailout and still…
26.2 Miles to Be Faster at 3.1 Lauren Fleshman, with her husband Jesse Thomas, had some time to consider the New York City Marathon in her hotel room. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times When th
By ANDY IHNATKO
ai@andyi.com
I’ve been pondering a bunch of questions ever since seeing the iPhone 4S unveiled and then getting my hands on one. I’m not sure that any of them has puzzled me more than this one:
Has the world lost its damned mind?
Here I refer to the people who blithely dismiss the 4S…
Feedloader (Clickability) Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. They were genius rivals: two American titans who transformed the technology industry and lived to see their visions of computers and electronic dev
Op-Ed Contributor A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked li
Google Engineer Calls Google+ a Complete Failure Oct 13, 2011 12:00 pm Mike Schuster On Monday, a pair of internal Apple documents detailing employee talking points on iCloud and iOS 5 were leaked to 9to5Mac. While they offered a glimpse into the clandestine machine that is Cupertino, they pale in…
Every once in while you are blessed with a very special day when history is rewritten, records fall and you surpass your own notions of what is possible to achieve. On 8 October Craig Alexander broke
(This story appears on the Nov. 7, 2011 cover of Forbes.) Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software develo
Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars An Icarus Interstellar design for an unmanned probe uses decades of technological advances to build on a 1970s British project called Daedalus. Credit... Adri
Taken by Pirates Credit... Wesley Allsbrook “It wasn’t really a pretty night,” Rachel Chandler recalled. Small, sloshing waves were coming from the southeast, and a trickle of wind blew from the south
Op-Ed Contributor The Universe, Dark Energy and Us Credit... Ishai Mishory Friendship, Me. ALMOST every scientific talk or seminar in astronomy today starts from the idea that we live in a universe in
In October 2005, three Citigroup analysts released a report describing the pattern of growth in the U.S. economy. To really understand the future of the economy and the stock market, they wrote,…
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I’ve been using Google+ for a couple of days now and it has lots of potentials. The most interesting feature of Google Plus is the way contacts are grouped together in the form of Circle. You can shar
One day in the spring of 1995, John Sylvan was parked outside a BayBank ATM in Coolidge Corner when he started feeling woozy. His heart palpitated. His head throbbed. He began to experience tunnel vis
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Since race-day nutrition is such a big part of long distance racing, and because IRONMAN and other long distance events generate so much noise in the triathlon space, it can be difficult to find good
Sunday, Jul. 10, 2011 Driven off the Road by M.B.A.s Bob Lutz, the former Vice Chairman of General Motors, is the most famous also-ran in the auto business. In the course of his 47-year rampage through the industry, he's been within swiping range of the brass ring at Ford, BMW, Chrysler and, most…
Following another crushing defeat for a US national soccer team, this time in the Women’s World Cup, many fans are no doubt feeling burned. It seems like every time we start to care about soccer, it s
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