Number of words: 345 No other modern technology has reshaped our lives quite like the automobile —and in few places more profoundly than in rural America. Until the start of the twentieth century, rural dwellers typically shopped, worked, worshipped, learned, and socialized within the twenty-mile radius that their horse and buggy carried them. The general … Read more

Number of words: 356 Their latest attack was unusually sophisticated from a technical perspective, with new malware code added to the original Zinc software that allowed the infection to worm its way automatically from computer to computer. Once replicated, the code encrypted and locked a computer’s hard disk, then displayed a ransom ware message demanding … Read more

Number of words: 421 On October 30, the Washington Post published a story that set the industry’s hair on fire: “NSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say.” The story was co-authored by Bart Gellman, a journalist I had known and respected since he wrote for the Daily Princeton an at … Read more

Number of words: 621 The nation’s first such crisis occurred a little more than a decade after the Constitution was signed. It was 1798 when a “quasi war” broke out between the United States and France on the Caribbean Sea. The French, wanting to pressure the United States to repay loans made by its overthrown … Read more