David Kilcullen, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and an architect of the Troop Surge in Iraq under General Petraeus, talks about the problem with traditional counter-insurgency efforts.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How exactly does social media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their government?
Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley take on the mainstream media and the political establishment.
Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
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