| Jun 25, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyFor years I’d wondered about the identity of a gaggle of anonymous commenters on Blog for Arizona, the website to which I frequently contribute. These guys weighed in a lot and were very eager to burnish the reputation of Arizona School Superintendent, John...
| Apr 2, 2014 | Cartoon|Rights / Democracy
| Mar 12, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyExactly 25 years ago, the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee conceptually “invented” the World Wide Web — and set in motion a process that would rapidly make the online world an essential part of our daily lives. By 1995, 14 percent of Americans...
| Mar 11, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyMedical science has long known that the optic nerve runs from the retina of our eyeballs to the visual cortex of our brains, letting us see what’s going on around us. Don’t look now, but another “optic nerve” has evolved. Rather than running to...
| Feb 26, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyBack in the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging “information superhighway.” But that mouthful of a moniker would soon fall out of fashion. Anyone today who talks about the “information superhighway” comes across as...
