Noah McCormack

It is an axiom of our age that a good crisis is a great opportunity, and nowhere is this belief more strongly held than in our nation’s beloved tech sector. San Francisco has a housing crisis; one startup founder aims to do his part by renting his couch in return for “$900 ...

Chamath Palihapitiya is a partner at a wealthy venture capital firm, Social+Capital Partnership, which aims “to create value and change on a global scale.” Being interested not just in profit but in social change, Mr. Palihapitiya appeared Sunday before a marginalized group ...

Peter G. Peterson has been called “the most influential billionaire in America” based on the impact his namesake foundation has had in more-or-less creating deficit reduction hysteria. While the deficit has been rapidly shrinking, the hysteria of Very Serious People ...

There is the hard way to get something done and then there is the most difficult way possible, otherwise known as the Obama administration method. In fairness, introducing insurance exchanges to millions of previously uninsured people was always bound to be difficult, regardless ...

If you glance at the names of conservative think tanks, you may notice a touching solicitude for the past. This species of head-piece heritage is, alas, a foreign country. The U.K.-based Adam Smith Institute, for example, is dedicated to the kind of free-market thinking you may ...