The YouTube Revolution

The revolution may not be televised, but it is being broadcast. And that itself is revolutionary. I saw Neda die for the first time on Sunday. I was at home in bed, resting a laptop on my chest. In that moment, this distant girl became an actual human being, and by...

Student Loans & the American Dream

 Education is the primary source of class-mobility in America. And class mobility––along with the ability to comfortably absorb immigrants––is what has made the United States an economic world beater. Historically, the US education system was...

Google: Bad for Newspapers, Good for the World

This is a response to a Matthew Ingraham's post "Google helps newspapers––period." over at the Nieman Journalism Lab. I started this as a comment, but felt it needed some expanding, so here goes…In the journalism world, there's a bit of a...

America, a Banana Republic?

Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging MarketFrom Desmond Lachman, former Deputy Director of the IMF's Policy & Review Department, writing in the WaPo:Over the past year, I've been getting Russia flashbacks as I witness the AIG debacle...