Technology is changing aviation’s future. Here’s how Congress can help.
innovation
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
Open Data, Better Cities
What Works Cities, a new $42 million initiative, will help cities use data to improve performance and policy.
Posted inGovernment, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
Why Is America Losing the Commercial Drone Wars?
For years, lobbyists and conservatives have managed to wrap regulatory agencies in ever more procedural red tape. Now those restrictions are hamstringing what ought to be a sprinting American industry.
Posted inEducation, June/July/August 2015, K-12, Magazine
How New Orleans Made Charter Schools Work
Since Katrina, the Crescent City’s schools have produced what some experts believe to be the most rapid academic improvement in American history—and created a reform model other cities are trying.
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2014
Is High Tech the Answer?
The way students talk about high tech, sounds disturbingly like how they talk about jobs on Wall Street.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014
Is the Master’s Degree an Expensive Anachronism?
For legions of new college graduates struggling to find good jobs in a weak labor market, “boot camps” are a faster and cheaper alternative to traditional grad school.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Light Touch
How smart regulation and technological innovation ruined a perfectly good conservative crusade against government.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, January/February 2014, Magazine
Dial-up Degrees
How a low-quality online college is helping poor students in Haiti and beyond.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2013
A Matter of Degrees
In the future world of “credentialing,” do you still need college?
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2013, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Estates of Mind
The answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
