T.J. Raphael

In the wake of the escalating violence in Egypt, it remains to be seen whether the nation can move forward as a unified country. Michael Wahid Hanna is a senior fellow at the Century ...

This month, it seems, Bitcoin hit the big time. A federal judge declared that Bitcoins are in fact a recognized form of currency, and Bloomberg Terminal actually created a Bitcoin tic...

The situation in Egypt continued to unravel yesterday as security forces stormed pro-Morsi protest camps, which sparked deadly clashes around the country. Mona Makram Ebeid is a polit...

The BBC's Hugh Sykes has been on the ground reporting on the latest violence in Egypt. Sykes has reported many times since the revolution began and he often points out that we frequen...

Most city dwellers are familiar with the vain attempts to flag down a cab when it’s raining or freezing or both. But new taxi-hailing smartphone apps are revolutionizing the relevancy...

Former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Bruno Iksil tallied more than $6.2 billion in losses last year in one of the company's most questionable and disastrous years of trading. But Iksil ...

Egyptian military forces cleared out two pro-Morsi camps in Cairo over night and there are reports of armored vehicles, bulldozers and tear gas being used by government forces against...

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, along with columnist Glenn Greenwald, helped Edward Snowden expose the NSA. Peter Maass, an investigative reporter, recently conducted an intervie...

Unions these days no longer have the man power, or political clout, they once did. But a new form of labor organization is making a difference in addressing the needs of workers—espec...

This week, Israeli officials also announced plans to build more than 1,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This decision has enraged Palestinian leaders and lead so...

Sometimes in our digital age, it can feel like very few big moments in life are left unrecorded, whether by email, text or tweet. But how does all of this new technology fit into even...

The policy known as stop-and-frisk allowed police to stop, question, and frisk persons they deemed "reasonably suspect" of committing a crime was found to be unconstitutional. The d...

Greg Louganis is a gay athlete who won a total of four gold medals in 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympic Games for diving. He also has personal experience with Olympic boycotts. Back in 198...

As Attorney General Eric Holder made clear in a speech yesterday, drug sentencing about to change. Mandatory minimums revolutionized the justice system, so how will Holder's new guide...

In Austin, Texas, a drought has plagued residents for five years. Now there is an initiative to replant parts of the city with “native” or “drought-resistant” plants that better suit ...

The NSA has long been lobbying Congress and the White House to launch a major defense operation to protect American computer networks from cyber attacks. But because the technology ne...

Yesterday James "Whitey" Bulger was convicted by a Boston jury and found guilty of racketeering, extortion and murder. The 83-year-old mobster now faces a life sentence in prison. Joi...

Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced some substantial changes in how low-level drug offenders are prosecuted, overriding pre-existing federal laws that impose mandatory minimu...

A new report for Bloomberg Markets Magazine exposes "conflict tungsten" from Colombia. A major tungsten mine in a remote part of Colombia is controlled by the guerrilla terrorist grou...

Lavabit and Silent Circle have stopped providing their email encryption services, sending a message that they would rather close down than give up data for U.S. surveillance. Silent C...