An Internet Sales Tax Will Not Destroy Your Freedom
The Web is real life, where people pay their fair share. EBay users should, too.
If there's one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days, it's that the Internet ought to be free. Both parties included an "internet freedom" plank in their 2012 platforms. READ MORE >>
The Case for Entrepreneur Visas
Tech startups want a seat next to Facebook at the table of immigration reform
Alejandro Muther has been trying to create jobs in the United States for more than a year now. READ MORE >>
A decade after the invasion of Iraq, it seems pretty clear that the ensuing military adventures there and in Afghanistan have done more harm than good. Billions of dollars were spent, thousands of lives lost, and two regions are now no more stable than when we arrived. But yesterday's tragedy in Boston has given us one reason to be grateful: the tourniquet. READ MORE >>
It's Impossible to Make Marathons Safe
The Boston bombing was a tragedy we can't prevent
The U.S. security establishment has, since September 11, 2001, gotten pretty good at making sporting events safe. About $2 billion per year goes into security at competitions, and the number rises to $6 billion in years with gigantic productions like an Olympics and a World Cup. READ MORE >>
A little over a year ago, the social blogging platform Tumblr dipped its toe into journalism with a new site called Storyboard. READ MORE >>
D.C. Could Use More Donald
Trump's luxury hotel downtown is a good deal for the city, but why stop there?
On Wednesday morning, in a ground-floor auditorium at the headquarters of the Washington Post, Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka–who last year won the right to redevelop the iconic Old Post Office as a 250-room luxury hotel–had their formal introduction to polite D.C. READ MORE >>
Want to Read the Law? It'll Cost You.
The fight to make building regulations truly free
Say you live in Rhode Island and want to upgrade the ancient plumbing in your kitchen. You figure you should be able to save some cash and do it yourself, but want to make sure you're on the up-and-up with all applicable codes and regulations. So you head over to the state’s website to read the plumbing code. READ MORE >>
How Much for That Startup?
What Amazon's Purchase of Goodreads Tells Us About the Content Wars
In the aftermath of Amazon's purchase of the social book website Goodreads last week, the tech press went into a speculative tizzy: How much did the retail behemoth pay for the platform and its 16 million bookworms? The question isn’t motivated purely by envy. While acquisition prices tell us how rich a company’s founders have just become, they also signal what to expect from the new union and serve as benchmarks for future investments. READ MORE >>
Every week, it seems, there’s another gender-related dustup in the technology world. The leader of a hacker movement quits over misogyny. A person in charge of recruiting Web developers is fired after publicly calling out sexual comments at a conference. READ MORE >>
On Monday morning, after a four-month listening tour and a thousand op-eds about What Went Wrong, the Republican National Committee rendered its verdict: The GOP has an image problem. People see it as a stuffy old club of rich white people, one that’s out of touch with the lives of most Americans. READ MORE >>
