All hell breaks loose, contemplatively speaking, when a retired prof goes looking for her great-grandmother in order to find herself.

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

Greens rejoice! Car-sharing service Uber is not only making car ownership in metropolitan areas less necessary. It also appears to be spurring on the adoption and development of public transportation.

In a chat with 20-somethings who use Tumblr, President Obama warned them from entering the legal profession. Maybe this will finally get the attention of the law school presidents.

President Obama, Hilary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, and now even Pope Francis are expressing hopes that Scotland will remain a part of the United Kingdom.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a new strain of the Spanish flu that is even deadlier than the original. They say it’s to stay ahead of natural flu evolutions, but we all know how this ends.

“Patent trolls”, which exist solely to sue productive companies for patent infringement, are becoming a major threat to tech innovation in the United States.

Butlers have become the face of the new service economy. But their lives are more complicated than many suggest, and the jobs of the future will likely be far more fluid and flexible.

Rhode Island is a petri dish for liberal policies. Now it’s suffering from sky-high unemployment, government overreach, runaway spending, and condition known as “Rhode Apathy.”

Tenure is not the only or even the main reason that we have bad teachers in primary and secondary schools in California or elsewhere. But nevertheless, we should not shy away from asking, “Whom does tenure benefit?”