Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

A vision without resources is an hallucination.

C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.