“What’s important here,” Lessig says, in his characteristically vehement way, “is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half-a-billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone.”
The HPR recently released a special online-only report examining the U.S. federal budget—the Annual Report of the United States of America (available at AnnualReportUSA.com)....
On Jan. 17, 1925 President Calvin Coolidge remarked that the "business of the American people is business." Pundits and politicians invoke this often-cited dictum...