'The Quest,' by Daniel Yergin
September 18, 2011Steve LeVineSeptember 18, 2011In 1990, Daniel Yergin published "The Prize," a magisterial history of oil. Not the typical stuff of best-sellers, it became one anyway based on...
View ArticleWalgreens Opens Electric Vehicle Charging Stations | San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 2011... According to a report released Thursday, about 5,500 municipalities have begun "e-government" initiatives ranging from Twitter feeds and Facebook pages to mobile apps and GPS...
View ArticleWhen 'Pop-Up Magazine' Goes Live, Creativity Ensues | San Francisco Chronicle
November 11, 2011Bringing elements of a traditional print magazine into a live show, Editor in Chief Douglas McGray carefully curated contributors who performed 21 acts in 90 minutes, including...
View ArticleDebt Boosted Under Leading Republicans' Plans, Report Says | San Francisco...
February 23, 2012The plans of Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney would each add trillions of dollars to the debt over the next decade, according to an analysis released today by the Committee...
View Article'Private Empire,' by Steve Coll: review | San Francisco Chronicle
April 29, 2012"Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" is a masterful study of Big Oil's biggest player. Steve Coll, a New Yorker staff writer whose previous books investigated the bin Laden...
View Article'Aftermath,' by Rachel Cusk: Review
August 13, 2012Liza MundyAugust 13, 2012Aftermath:On Marriage and SeparationBy Rachel Cusk(Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 146 pages; $20)Not long ago, in an online blog of the Wall Street Journal, a wife...
View ArticleEfforts to Preserve Online Freedom Reveal Threats | San Francisco Chronicle
July 7, 2012"It doesn't automatically mean that governments around the world will start doing the right thing at all times," said Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and...
View ArticleRomney Or Obama Win Means No Escape From Fiscal Crisis Of Debt | San...
September 28, 2012Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, based in Washington, says there's growing support on Capitol Hill for tackling the debt in a constructive...
View Article'Escape Fire': Diagnosing Health Care Ills | San Francisco Chronicle
October 4, 2012Medical reporter Shannon Brownlee says that tens of thousands of Medicare recipients die each year from unneeded treatments. And Oregon's Dr. Erin Martin offers testimony from the front...
View Article'Escape Fire': Diagnosing Health Care Ills | San Francisco Chronicle
October 4, 2012Medical reporter Shannon Brownlee says that tens of thousands of Medicare recipients die each year from unneeded treatments. And Oregon's Dr. Erin Martin offers testimony from the front...
View ArticleRepublicans Signal Openness To Deficit Deal Without Budging | San Francisco...
November 8, 2012“We really risk jeopardizing where we stand in the global economy by showing we can't govern,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a...
View ArticleWhite House Opens Door to Chamber for Fiscal Talks | San Francisco Chronicle
November 27, 2012Maya MacGuineas, a spokeswoman for Fix the Debt, said her group is designed to expire after the debt problem is solved, while the chamber and others will endure. Fix the Debt is an...
View ArticleSeo: Syrian Authority's Cut Off Of The Internet Raises Fears Of A Possible...
December 1, 2012However, it has been suggested by Sascha Meinrath, director of the Internet in a Suitcase project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, that having “a single...
View Article'Lean In,' By Sheryl Sandberg
March 8, 2013Liza MundyMarch 8, 2013So I was sitting at my desk with a copy of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" at my elbow, procrastinating for a tiny minute before writing this review. I was leaning back,...
View ArticleBoston Bomb Suspect's Citizenship Bid Is Part Of Widening Probe | San...
April 22, 2013The two brothers displayed an amateurish modus operandi, failing to disguise themselves from cameras, suggesting they were motivated by feelings of social alienation as immigrants in the...
View Article'Who Owns the Future?' by Jaron Lanier
May 12, 2013Parag KhannaMay 12, 2013URL: http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Who-Owns-the-Future-by-Jaron-Lanier-4506653.php
View ArticleCalWORKs' Car Ban Keeps Families Poor
May 24, 2013Aleta Sprague Judy Darnell, United Ways of California May 24, 2013URL: http://assets.newamerica.net/blogposts/2013/calworks_car_ban_keeps_families_poor-84625
View ArticleReviews of E-Reader Books, Sept. 1 | San Francisco Chronicle
August 30, 2013In this fascinating story from the literary website the Millions, Konstantin Kakaes delves into an obscure scientific conundrum known as the Pioneer Anomaly that preoccupied a handful of...
View ArticleStudent Loan Deal May Have Unintended Consequences | San Francisco Chronicle
September 14, 2013... law school, this could be $75,000 per year. Students with large debt loads could have some forgiven even if they end up making more than $100,000 per year, says Jason Delisle,...
View ArticleBig Push This Month for More Widespread Cybersecurity Effort | San Francisco...
July 5, 2014"Cybersecurity information-sharing legislation should be written such that only cybersecurity threat information is shared with the government, and it's done in a privacy protecting way,"...
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