A Commencement Address, get used to rejections, we all get them sometimes It is school commencement season.
Can Our Waterways Provide a New Source of Baseload Power? Virginia is the first state to formally press for the creation of a virtual power plant. Glenn Youngkin, the state’s Republican governor, signed the…
How Technology Built the British Empire As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world for so…
California Doctor Opens New Front in Cancer War In the world of medicine, immunotherapy is a hot topic. It has uses in the treatment of many fatal diseases, even of aging
How Trump and technology have turned the press corps from Lions to Hyenas Political messaging is not what it used to be
Rare Earths are a crisis of Government neglect An old adage says “a stitch in time saves nine.” Indeed. But it is a lesson seldom learned by governments
Oh, Congress! How Have You Become So Pusillanimous? October 1989 found me in a small hotel, the Londonderry Arms, on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland
VOA Pure Because it Wasn't Beholden, Despite Its U.S. Funding It was a quiet voice in the night in Southern Rhodesia, a radio broadcast. But it let in the world: a world beyond the horizons of my family, and…
America, for So Long a State of Mind, Is Losing Its Sense of Mission America isn’t just a piece of remarkably fertile real estate between two great oceans. It is also a state of mind
Will U.S. Barons 'Magna Carta' Trump? Sitting behind President Trump at his inauguration were men who might well be called the barons of America: the big-tech billionaires who…
The Trump Way Comes to The Washington Post As Juliet might have said, “O America, America, wherefore art thou America?”
A Chainsaw Is the Woefully Wrong Tool for Government Reform At the recent “Future of the Blue Economy” conference in Newport, Rhode Island, entrepreneurs and their investors were talking about breakthroughs,…
Requiem for America’s Helping Hand in the World I have seen the U.S. Agency for International Development in action — in Bolivia, Botswana, Pakistan and in Eastern Europe — and I can say that it is…
My frightening, Splendid Christmas in the ER Most people have horror stories about emergency rooms. Whether in Boston, Washington or Los Angeles, the stories are appalling
The crisis in journalism: more reporting needed There is a lot of dither about the future of journalism. Make no mistake, it is the essential commodity
‘Missing Link’ Offers Unique Boost to Renewable Energy Generation In a well-ordered laboratory in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore, an engineer has been perfecting a device that might be called the missing link…
The Backdoor Challenge of AI Machine-Learning The great race is on. It isn’t the one on television, but it is one that has put the world’s wealthiest companies in fierce competition to secure…
My Newspaper Days (Television, too) On Dec. 13, I will receive an award and give a dinner talk at the National Press Club in Washington, recognizing my 68 years as a journalist and my…
Giving Thanks for America and Its Piano Man Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. Let me count some of the ways I love Thanksgiving.
