Mary Meeker, long a mainstay at Morgan Stanley, now a partner at the venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the most important Internet analysts in America today. Which is to say, she’s one of the
The white-marble Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington DC, looks like a giant courts building or a central bank, fully intimidating and imposing in its hulking stony blockiness. And the US Congress, of course, is an institution best known
It was the headline that buzzed ’round the world: “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power this year.” Okay, so China is now #1. We are now #2. Let’s ask ourselves: Does it really surprise us that
It’s so predictable: When Pope Francis reminds the world that he is pro-life, the right cheers and the left sulks. But when the Pope reminds people that he is on the economic left, the left cheers and the right sulks.
Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital in the 21st Century, has captured the imagination of the lefty intelligentsia. Yet the French economist’s ambitious work, which seeks to revive leftist redistributionist politics, seems strangely inadequate to the declared task of mandating equality.
Today, in the year 2064, as we look back over the last 50 years, it might seem as if the Abundance Revolution was inevitable, since so much wealth was involved. After all, it was wealth just waiting to be unleashed.
Here’s an interesting idea: floating nuclear power plants, out in the ocean. You want your nuke plant far away from people? Out of sight, even? Check. You want the plant to be safe from earthquakes? Check. Even tsunamis are much less of
Only Hollywood would make a movie in which the end of the Internet–indeed, the end of electricity itself–is treated as a happy outcome. Oh, sorry, was that a spoiler of sorts? Well, not really, because that happy ending is shown
A big front-page story, and a scary headline, in the April 16 Washington Post: “Patient-records plan faces ethical pitfalls.” “Ethical pitfalls”? Yikes! Alert the privacy police! That is, the enforcers on the right, as well as the left! Could our personal medical
According to KQED, the PBS station in San Francisco, the “death with dignity” folks are going to be making another big lobbying push in California. The spearhead is a Denver-based advocacy group called Compassion & Choices. “The time is now,” Barbara
The headline in Thursday’s New York Times was blunt: “Report Finds a Los Angeles in Decline.” Was that header a little bit of east coast Schadenfreude? A little bit of right coast kicking the left coast? No, not really, because the
Sheryl Sandberg for President? Okay, we’re not there, at least not yet, but consider this headline from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg might ‘Lean In’ to political office.” As reporter Carla Marinucci notes, “The valley buzz in recent months
Here’s an interesting headline from the New York Times: “U.S. Tries Candor to Assure China on Cyberattacks.” Yes, that’s right: The American government has been telling the Chinese government about its cyber-hacking efforts against China, in hopes that the Chinese will
On Monday, November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered an election-eve speech in which he sought to clinch his relationship with the voters. As he said of Americans, “They seek a vision of a better America, a vision of society that
“It’s Official: We Are In a Tech Bubble. That was the March 11 headline in Fox Business News. Tech veteran Steve Tobak asked, “How can an industry full of so many brilliant and innovative people–an industry I was once a
In part one of this series, we noted that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is reaching epidemic proportions, and yet the political class seems to have little to say about it. In part two, we noted the past success of two Republican presidents, Theodore Roosevelt
In the first installment of this series, we noted the explosive growth in the human and financial costs of Alzheimer’s Disease and asked, “Does the Right have anything to say?” Mindful of the importance of the Constitution and the appropriate
We have an epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease–epidemic, that’s the only word for it. And there’s a humanitarian and political opportunity here, but only if someone seizes it. Here at Breitbart News, we might ask: Can conservatives and libertarians come up
Once upon a time, Democrats complained about fatcats funding campaigns. Then they discovered that it was they who had the fatter cats. So that made the situation different: Fatcats–at least liberal fatcats–are okay. The problem for elected Democrats, though, is
