The patriotism factor: asset or liability?
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Connie Cominsky, a suburban businesswoman, has become the archetype disillusioned Republican and made it her mission to vote the US president out of office.
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Busting the small-cap risk myth once and for all.
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The precious balance between individual freedoms and national security has never been defined in absolutes. In times of war, when our security is threatened, people are asked to make concessions with their freedoms.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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For a lot of people, sports is all about ego. It's fine to get into the pursuit of excellence. I don't think that in itself is pathological. But we go overboard and lose sight of everything else, and that pursuit of excellence becomes obsessive-compulsive. When your self-confidence is entirely...
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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Editor's note: This is the second of two articles about Dr. Don Hillger. American independence has always been a part of our culture, however there is a time when unbridled independence is counter productive.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Chance favors the prepared mind, whether returns show it or not.
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Why do well-meaning laws backfire?
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Will this trend benefit investors?
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Having heard the blather or ranting about Red vs. Blue states for some time, I decided that I could check the curious general claim that "Red states are beneficiaries of tax revenue".  Having obtained the data here about year-by-year comparisons of the states, I obtained some results for 2004.  My intent is to identify trends without much partisan bias (BTW, I'm a Nader voter) in an American viewpoint that's not so much grey, but purple.
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The benefits of aligning corporate charity with corporate competitiveness.
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&quot;When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then-undeveloped capabilities of the word &#39;reform.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more