Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, died early Monday Singapore time at age 91. I had, despite living in Asia (Japan) for three years in the mid-1990s, never heard of him until a fall 1998 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy class on the “Theory of Statecraft.” Carnes Lord, a double-PhD…
As a newspaper journalist, I wasn’t allowed to actively engage in politics, and I’m still working my way into it. I give trivial amounts to the Democratic Party, for which I in turn receive dozens of emails a day asking for additional trivial donations. I decided I’d volunteer a bit for the Udall campaign, first…
The jersey's orange and the shoes are black, unless you happen to be stoned.
Abigail Sullivan Moore's New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don't mix. This one shows that frequent…
The NYT blog "The Upshot" put together a story and a dynamic chart published Oct. 10 that encapsulates a ton more information than at first glance. Play with the variables and think about what it's really telling us.
The story, "Heavier Babies Do Better in School" by David Leonhardt and Amanda Cox, is about a neonatal…
Our (or technically Sunrun's) solar panels during installation in July 2010. Little did they know they would one day anchor a feature-article lead.
I've done some writing for the Rocky Mountain Institute this year, which I've enjoyed because a) I have a ton of respect for Amory Lovins and his organization's work (Natural Capitalism and Reinventing…