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Can U.S. Lawmakers Take It As Much As They Dish It Out?
By Jorge and Paola GuajardoDuring President Hu Jintao´s visit to Washington last week, U.S. lawmakers engaged in a game of one-upmanship to see who could point out more faults with China´s record on...
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Visual SOTU Analysis, via 'Infomous'
(In the spirit of Guest Blogger week, and as part of our ongoing State of the Union festivities, here is a bonus entry by Eric Bonabeau, a theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of the...
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I Can't Not Mention This ('Lang Lang as Warmonger' B.S. Dept)
For those American right-wingers, and those Chinese hotheaded fenqing, who were sure, sure, sure that the famous Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang was sticking a harpoon in the side of dunce-like...
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The Power of Perseverance
By Phil Baker Some products can be developed quickly, as I noted in my post earlier this week. But some can take years. This is the incredible story of one individual with a product idea and passion to...
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More on the 'Kennedys'
By John TierneyThere are Kennedy haters out there who, predictably, thought my earlier post was terrific. Perhaps just as surely, there are people who brook no criticism of the Kennedys. I received...
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What Is More Annoying Than a Pepco Map Saying Power Will Be Out For at Least...
Well, this is more annoying -- what the Pepco "outage map" has shown about electric supply in the nation's capital for the past eight twelve hours now:____________I can see the map, or see that there's...
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What's Next for Apple?
By Phil BakerAs a design engineer by training, I love Apple products. I appreciate how well they work, how well they're made and how well they look. The company has raised the standards for consumer...
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We Realize You Have a Choice of Carriers, Mr. Hu
By Jorge and Paola GuajardoIf there is an image from Hu Jintao's U.S. visit that spoke to me more than any other, it's this one: At a time when China is making a lot of Americans nervous, what could be...
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My Favorite Things: A Product Designer's Top Tech Gadgets
by Phil Baker As a gadget person and technology columnist for the San Diego Transcript I try out dozens of new tech gadgets each month that range from clever to what were they thinking? With my...
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'We Do Big Things': The Annotated State of the Union
Over the years, I've often done day-after annotations of the State of the Union address, to go through the text the way a speechwriting crew might and examine why things were said the way they were,...
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Postal Policymaking: A Political Laboratory
By John TierneyCuriously, at a time when the thoughts of most people in the United States have been focused -- properly and understandably! -- on Michele Bachmann, some folks have been thinking about...
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Barry Sanders, Matt Biondi, and the Tiger Mom
By Lane Wallace"Nothing is fun until you're good at it." This intriguing statement, philosophy and belief is supposedly at the core of Amy Chua's controversial new book about "Tiger Mother" parenting....
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The China Daily's Take on Test Scores and Tiger Moms
by Jorge and Paola GuajardoWith all the talk in the U.S. about Tiger moms, Sputnik moments, and snowstorm-braving Chinese solving differential equations on their way to the stadium, you would think the...
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Student Life: More Views
By John TierneyI knew that my earlier post on contemporary student life would provoke comment, even outrage. And it came -- some of it predictable and expected, some of it a surprise. From the...
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Reminder: Who Are These People?
In the last few hours I've received a number of messages congratulating me on a "great piece" about the Kennedys -- and on Chinese manufacturing, and on what's up with Steve Jobs. To which I say,...
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Challenger, 25 Years Later
By Lane Wallace Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger--an event that itself marked the end of a new generation's innocence about the wonders and safety of...
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Contemporary Student Life
by John TierneyIt may be that, like me, you don't quite know what to make of articles that have appeared recently about the state of contemporary secondary and post-secondary education. But maybe you...
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Let's Cut! Whose Fat Would You Carve Out?
By John TierneyLet's get down and dirty. What would you cut? Whose fat would you carve out? Tonight's speechifying is all about positioning: which party is the stronger agent of budgetary famine?...
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Of Airplanes, Fences, and National Security
By Lane WallaceAlthough I've written about aviation for over 20 years now, I rarely write about it on The Atlantic's site because Jim Fallows already does such an excellent job of covering the topic...
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Soon in This Space: Revised 'SOTU' Annotation
Late last night, while my house was out of electricity, phone service, heat, etc from the latest DC snowstorm (conditions still prevailing 18 hours later -- but this time I have sympathy for Pepco, the...
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