Georgia Tech’s online master’s program in computer science has gotten good marks from students at the end of its first year. It could lead the way into new era of partnerships between MOOC providers and universities.

Walter Russell Mead takes a look at Obama’s slow-motion vanishing act in the New York Daily News.

Has political hierarchy in the form of the state met its match in today’s networked world?

Researchers discover a new cure for MRSA, a drug-resistant bacteria often lurks in hospitals. That’s good news, but there are too few reasons to be optimistic about our battle with the bugs.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is growing worse, says the World Health Organization. Last month, nearly forty new cases were reported over the course of four days.

Your bus may soon know where you live and how you travel. A new start-up called Bridj will use data from social media and other sources to plan fast, efficient bus routes.

Blue-collar wages are increasing slowly but surely. Some industries, including construction and trucking, are even struggling to fill positions.

The lessons of World War I are still with us a century later—for better and for worse.

MOOCs have taken to the tropics: Online education provider Coursera is setting up a “national network” of MOOCs in Trinidad and Tobago.

The lawyers of the future will depend heavily on, or even be, computers.