Tag Archives: wikipedia

When gatekeepers step aside, the local crowd flourishes

02/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to…

CES leader: Welcome to 2015, the golden age of technology

01/05/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The tech revolution is killing a lot of old jobs. But it’s creating many, many more – not to mention giving us greater choice and levels of convenience that were once the stuff of fantasy. On one hand, devices connected…

Ukrainians Go To The Polls Tomorrow

05/24/2014 Published on Forbes.com
As Ukrainians go to the polls to elect their president tomorrow the result is not in much doubt: chocolatier and oligarch Petro Poroshenko will almost certainly be the next president of Ukraine. But what is in much graver doubt is…

Putin Is Undermining Ukraine’s Democracy — And Obama Is Letting Him

05/08/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Vladimir Putin’s disdain for democracy is no secret. He has quashed dissent at home, and the passage on Tuesday of a new “Blogger Law” is only the latest move by the Kremlin to control media and police the internet. As…

Lacking Leadership On Ukraine — And Everywhere Else

05/05/2014 Published on Forbes.com
As of late, there have been a series of scathing criticisms of current US foreign policy, especially concerning our inaction in Ukraine. The Economist asked, “What would America fight for?” Unsurprisingly, the answer was far from clear. As the editorial…

Inside Putin’s Short-term And Long-term Strategy

03/29/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Just yesterday, Russian President Putin called John Kerry and said that he is now ready to offer a seemingly meaningful response to the American plan for Ukraine. This naturally raises the question of whether Putin is going to soon capitulate…

Looking Ahead To 2016: Enough About The Candidates, What About The Message?

03/15/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov If today’s paper was any guide, you’d think that the 2016 presidential election was just around the corner and not years down the road. Former Obama advisor David Axelrod took to Twitter to remind…

John Kerry Admits Defeat On Syria, But What’s Next? The Case For Coercive Diplomacy

02/06/2014 Published on Forbes.com
The notion that we’re failing in Syria is just about the only thing both parties can agree on these days. In a recent interview for her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell went after a US State Department official on our flawed…

The Final Push for IPAB Repeal

03/15/2012 Published on Forbes
Congressional Republicans announced on Friday their intent to link the widely supported House bill to repeal the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) with a more partisan medical malpractice reform bill. The IPAB repeal bill, which has been well-received thus…