We can assume that the data-driven Marissa Mayer studied the data and algorithmed the hell out of everything in sight -- before deciding that Yahoo employees would henceforth cease telecommuting and report to the office. She could, however, have ...

In the movie "Lawrence of Arabia," the attempt to unite the Arabs comes apart in Damascus. Lawrence bangs on his desk with the butt of his gun to bring the assembly to order, but to no avail. Chaos erupts. Now something similar is happening in ...

I love you. Honestly, I do. I love all my readers -- each and every one of you, including the ones I don't know, which is most of you. This is the way it now is in America. I sign all my emails "Love" or "Much love," which may or may not be the ...

We finally have an Obama Doctrine. It is not quite the one outlined in various major speeches -- Cairo, Berlin or the Greco-Roman one delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention -- but one that has been ingloriously revealed through news ...

Imagine six former directors of the CIA talking with a distinguished filmmaker and confessing to the murder of two terrorism suspects, ordering the assassination of others, alleging a lack of real leadership by the president and stating to the ...

In retrospect, a better title for the terrific film "Zero Dark Thirty" would have been "Rorschach." Like the famous ink blots developed by Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, some people look at the film and conclude that torture works and ...