The Libertarian Capitalist's Case for State Power and Making No Money
Peter Thiel praises the great government-engineering projects and the impoverished inventors like Tesla and the Wright brothers.
Washington Ideas Forum 2014
Dispatches from The Atlantic's two-day conference in the capital
Gaming Out the End of the Gay-Marriage Fight
Evan Wolfson and Ted Olson aren't pleased with the Supreme Court's decision not to make marriage equality the law of the land, but they're ready to keep fighting.
Hitting ISIS Where It Hurts
Treasury undersecretary David Cohen on using finance to fight terrorism
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Get Used to Endless War
From ISIS to climate change, the Pentagon chief says, the threats that face the United States are long-term challenges.
Megan Smith Thinks Every Child Should Be Able to Code
The U.S. chief technology officer and former vice president of Google[x] believes that the key to innovation is early STEM education.
Does Eric Holder Want to Prosecute Journalists or Not?
The attorney general continues to wrestle with how to handle national-security-leak prosecutions, but says leakers in Ferguson, Missouri, "need to shut up."
David Rubenstein's Patriotic Philanthropy
The billionaire founder and CEO of the Carlyle Group on his mission to repay America for everything it's given him
Do Campaigns Actually Produce More Voter Apathy?
"People are a whole lot more interested in themselves than they are in the candidates."
The Onion, Jon Stewart, and the Rise of the Bashful Social Critic
Why don't America's most effective, moral voices want to claim any credit for what they're doing?
Winning With Ideas
For the next two days, lawmakers, experts, academics, and pundits will demonstrate how creative thinking can affect pressing global issues.