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Bill Gates
November 30, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Bill Gates announced something big on climate change, and is firing back on a GOP talking point in the process.
November 6, 2015
Dana Goldstein
Good Intentions
Bill Gates is here to change the world—will he make money doing it?
January 30, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Smallness of Barack Obama: Diminishment, Drift, and Sighful Contemplation
A Chinese dissident shows us how to dream big
May 30, 2013
Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus
The Myth of the Lone Inventor
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is wrong to oppose government subsidies. After all, he benefitted from them.
December 14, 2012
Matt Katz
The ‘Heroic’ Mayor and His Local Haters
September 24, 2012
Jonathan Rothwell
Top Research Institutions and Long-Run Regional Prosperity
June 23, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Who Goes There?
January 17, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Romney's 15-Percent Problem
November 1, 2011
Isaac Chotiner
Explaining Steve Jobs’s Genius
July 20, 2011
T.A. Frank
Is Pie-Throwing Ever Morally Justifiable?
July 19, 2011
Kara Brandeisky, Julia Dionne
INCOMING! A Video History of Pies, Shoes, Eggs, and More Hurled at Public Figures
July 13, 2011
Evgeny Morozov
Don't Be Evil
April 1, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Rich Are Different: They're Luckier
December 14, 2010
David Rieff
Wikileaks and the Cyberwars to Come
November 1, 2010
David Rieff
The Gates Foundation's Delusional Techno-Messianism
July 21, 2010
Richard A. Posner
Just Friends
June 29, 2010
Mark Muro
Climate Legislation--Narrow or Broad, It Will Still Slight Innovation
June 25, 2010
David Callahan
Traitors to Their Class
March 11, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Liberals And Illegal Immigration
February 15, 2010
Bradford Plumer
Bill Gates Wants A Miracle

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