NPR explains cap-and-trade with a fun story about limiting use of the word "dude". Alan Durning of Sightline explains why he (mostly) loves Waxman-Markey. The [...]

David Pogue talks about what he calls the App Store Effect: The App Store Effect says this: if you cut a software program's price in [...]

Big debate about having a "public option", and bad news from a Congressional Budget Office review of health care proposals.

The federal government is trying to bring back budget rules that embody some sort of common sense: Mr. Obama announced he was sending legislation to [...]

A funny NYT article on the "long tail" articles on Wikipedia that become the disputed ground in edit battles (hint: think Scientology) has a link [...]