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Meet William Playfair, 18th-century philosopher, writer, inventor, spy.

California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

An old obsession goes virtual in the age of globalization.

A conversation with Amory Lovins on our energy and environmental challenges.

You would never know it from the media chatter, but businesses that are “too big to fail” are an old problem.

A legal showdown looms over the corporations that want to own our DNA.

Myth and partisanship obscure the key lesson of the Great Depression—a lesson about the politics of trust.