Newt Gingrich's bold plans for a moon base dominated last night's GOP debate. If he did get elected president--it could happen!--here's how Newt's bigger take on innovation and science would change America.READ»
Birth certificate, schmirth certificate. The Yale Cultural Recognition Project's theory suggests that die-hard birthers will hold firm to their political philosophies in the face of incontrovertible evidence--until they're given a way to save face.READ»
The President is also keen on all things "new." Last night's SOTU speech prompted us to run his words through our text analysis process and dig into the text. What do his words reveal about our "future"? READ»
Who is more powerful: 400-million-user strong Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, or the leader of the free world?
That was the question posed to Soraya Darabi, #53 on our Most Creative People in Business list, who explained ...READ»
Cast your minds back to 2008. As well as the traditional settings of TV, radio and print, the race for the White House saw a new battleground: that of social media. The presidential campaign of Barack Obama used Twitter, YouTube, ...READ»
This morning the World had a bit of a surprise: The Nobel Prize Committee announced its choice for the Peace Prize as President Barack Obama (the subject of Fast Company's April 2008 cover story, "The Brand Called Obama"). Few people ...READ»
It’s been a tough first year for the bringer of hope and change. Though only in office for seven months, Obama’s been shouldering the hopes of a nation from the moment he entered the presidential race. But after passing a ...READ»
Congrats to the winner of Afghanistan's second presidential poll: You're leader of the world's No. 1 narco state.
Opium production has grown 4,000% since the Taliban's ouster in 2001,
and the country now supplies 93% of the global ...READ»
Ahead of the 15th anniversary of the genocide, Paul Kagame talks about the memory of 1994, Rwanda's development plans, and its custom-made democracy.READ»
Volunteers flooded My.BarackObama.com -- MyBO, to insiders -- from the day it launched, nearly crashing the site. Under Hughes, it became a virtual system for helping real people do what they wanted to do in real life: elect Barack Obama president.READ»
Activating a customer base with digital tools isn't as easy as it looks. As Chris Hughes showed with both Facebook and Obama, detailed execution is at least as important as strategy. Some examples:READ»
President Obama may have promised a new central role for science and technology during his inauguration, and his election campaign was the highest-tech yet seen...but on day one, the new administration's staff crashed headlong into a ...READ»
Never have we seen an elected president, and maybe even any single person come into the spotlight as quickly, and with as much force as Barack Obama has over the last 4+ years. If online search (googling) can give any ...READ»
The day after Barack Obama was elected as our next President, Ethan Bronner wrote in the New York Times...
“There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a ...READ»
Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has been tracking Barack Obama and John McCain's positions on innovation and technology policy for some months. In September, ITIF released a report Comparing the Candidates' ...READ»
I want to talk about leadership. I want to talk about a facet of the present American political climate, and I ask you to weigh in on this issue.
We have always elected leaders who we believe in, who we feel we can relate to. But ...READ»
I'm fairly frustrated with oil companies and have been for a long time. I think that a lot of it comes from the fact that, even with a fuel-mizer of a vehicle, I still feel pain whenever I take it to the pump. Yesterday I received an ...READ»
