Out of sight in Carol Stream, 42 people move 60,000 discs daily with quiet efficiency. But don’t drop off your flicks there.

Op-Ed Contributor Why We Need Health Care Reform OUR nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has be

In Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture , author Ellen Ruppel Shell asks, "What are we really buying when we insist on getting stuff as cheaply as possible?" Her answer: a low-quality food supply,

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As you all surely know, the Senate is not a terribly democratic institution. A voter in Wyoming — population 533,000 — has about 70 times more ability to influence the Senate’s direction than one in California — population 36.8 million. And the lack of representativeness can be particularly acute…

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Instead of working together to reach the promised land of online brand advertising, Facebook and Google are racing to see who can get there first.

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Illustration by KAL AMERICA'S recent history has been a relentless tilt to the West—of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas, the nation's two biggest states, are the

A few days ago on this site, John Allsopp argued passionately that HTML 5 is a mess. In response to HTML 5 activity leader Ian Hickson’s comment here that, “We don’t need to predict the future. When t

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Could our long national nightmare be over? The economic contraction, this Great Recession, began in December 2007, and there’s no apparent end in sight. As the unemployment rate has spiked , analysts

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“In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,” Chris Anderson writes, “but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.” Illustration by Richard Mcguire At a hearing on Capitol Hill in

Writing in this morning's Washington Post , Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote, "many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of t

My mother still owns, and uses, the same vacuum cleaner she bought early in her marriage, just after World War II. She still lives in the house my father -- not a carpenter by trade, but an electricia

We’ve all had that moment. That dial tone that hums in your head after you glance across the train aisle or spot someone perched upon a park bench or peer into the window at Starbucks and, based on th

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Genetic condition had ruined his lungs and left him unable to sing He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted to die He used swine flu

Op-Ed Columnist Who Are We? Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the

The users of Facebook and MySpace may be divided by class, according to the observations made by UC Berkeley PhD student Danah Boyd. In a self-described "blog essay" on her web site titled " Viewing A

Credit-card companies are becoming more interested in their customers’ lives and psyches to help determine who is a good bet. (thanks, J. Aspaster)

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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Sixty years after the publication of Orwell's masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, that crystal first line sounds as natural a

I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already h

In Soviet Russia album covers… well you can figure out yourself how to say it cool after getting a look on more than 70 different sometimes very funny Soviet vynyl covers art.