I am feeling a bit philosophical today, so bear with me. Last week, I finally bit the bullet and got into the garden for my spring cleanup. I had purposely left everything in the fall to die back ...

Spring training is an educational experience. Though its results don't guarantee much about the upcoming MLB season, baseball fans can come away with valuable lessons about the state of the sport. For ...

Fifteen years after the Middle East’s largest pro-democracy movement, the West still has not learned that supporting autocracy is no longer sustainable. The Arab Spring carries multiple meanings for ...

Instead of traveling to Daytona Beach or Puerto Vallarta over our spring break this year, we traveled back in time. We joined nearly 50 of our graduate students at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced ...

Ten years ago, as masses of demonstrators filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, I made a modest bet with a friend that Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator of nearly 30 years, would hold on to power. My thinking ...

Apr. 9—Flowers are poking up through the thawing earth. Trees and bushes are sporting their vibrant blooms. Grass is growing and getting greener. The birds that flew south for the winter are returning ...

Bitcoin is not simply a new monetary tool, a new currency, or an additional asset class. I tell people that Bitcoin is a Monetary Revolution. The Bitcoin eco-system is full of innovations to bring ...

Tropical Storm Imelda swept through the Houston area Thursday, and northwest Harris County first responders were ready for it, rescuing more than a hundred people from the flooding. Spring Fire ...