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For people who’ve ever struggled to find a taxi, Uber is great news. If you’re in a decent-sized city, download its app, register, and you’ll never wait for a taxi …

We make fun of North Korea quite a bit — it’s the whole point of this series. And it’s easy to mock the North Korean regime, they’re ridiculous. But the …

If you scour the prose of contemporary economists, you’ll invariably encounter murkiness and subterfuge. President Truman was all too aware of the problem when he said “give me a one-handed …

Liberal bloggers are now spinning Barack Obama’s inaction on the Ukraine crisis as an intentional strategy, as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin pulls his troops back from the border with Ukraine. But while …

Is the 9/11 Memorial Museum a place for Americans to mourn and pay respect to the fallen — or a place to commercialize and generate revenue? That’s the question pundits …

Almost 50 years ago, a media thinker and professor named Marshall McLuhan coined the catchphrase “global village.” Today that phrase remains an apt way to characterize not only the Internet, but the …

Back in 2009 the German central bank, the Bundesbank, announced they were concerned they hadn’t been paying enough attention to their gold reserves stored in overseas central banks. It’s not …

A full 12 years and 249 days after the tragedy that redefined America, president Barack Obama dedicated the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York today, telling attendees that “nothing …

One quarter of the globe’s adult population is “deeply infected with Antisemitic attitudes,” according to a new survey published by the New York City-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The survey also found …

When Benny Goodman recorded a song about “a slow boat to China,” it was talking about the longest trip imaginable. Today of course we can fly to China; the trip from …