Opinion: Clinton Still Talks About Aliens, And That's Good

Timothy Lavin, Bloomberg | Tuesday June 07, 2016

Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to "go into those files" and "get to the bottom of it." What she wants to get to the bottom of is Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 -- you know, the whole thing.

Opinion: Raghuram Rajan Is A Great Asset And PM Modi Should Say So: Foreign Media

Bloomberg | Monday June 06, 2016

For the past several years, Raghuram Rajan has distinguished himself as the head of India's central bank. He's met opposition along the way, though, and critics don't want him reappointed when his term expires in September.

Opinion: Clinton Can Demolish Trump With One Message

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg | Friday May 27, 2016

Each party is on track to nominate the only candidate who could possibly lose the election to the other. In the latest Washington Post-ABC poll, a sizable majority of Americans considered Donald Trump unqualified to be president. But Hillary Clinton is so unpopular that they still preferred Trump to her.

Opinion: As Many Die At Everest, An Old Problem: Too Many Climbers, Deadly Congestion

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Wednesday May 25, 2016

This year more than 400 climbers and sherpas decided to try their luck at summiting Mount Everest during the spring climbing season. Tragically, at least four have died so far and more than 30 others are reported to be suffering from severe frostbite and other ailments caused by prolonged exposure to Everest's brutal conditions.

Opinion: Something Is Rotten In The State Of Apple

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg | Wednesday April 27, 2016

Apple executives have been explaining the company's first year-on-year revenue drop since 2003 as down to macroeconomic headwinds and a less impressive upgrade cycle than in 2015. Those excuses miss the point. The colossus doesn't exactly have feet of clay yet, but Apple's business model is challenged.

Opinion: Pakistan Has A China Connection To Nuclear Trouble

Eli Lake, Bloomberg | Wednesday April 27, 2016

Pakistan held its annual military day parade and displayed its new medium-range nuclear missiles last month, and it barely made a splash in Washington. But at least one analyst was paying close attention.

Opinion: What Motivates Women To Become Suicide Bombers

Tobin Harshaw, Bloomberg | Friday April 08, 2016

On a list of history's most notorious assassins, alongside John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and Gavrilo Princip, the name Thenmozhi Rajaratnam would probably draw mostly blank stares. But in her way, the Tamil Tiger terrorist -- who blew up herself, the Indian leader Rajiv Gandhi and 13 others in May 1991 -- has perhaps had the largest lasting influence.

Opinion: Why Apple's Fight With The FBI Is So Hard To Referee

Faye Flam, Bloomberg | Saturday February 27, 2016

The fight between Apple and the U.S. government comes down to a technical enigma wrapped in layers of emotional debate.

Opinion: Apple's 'Error 53' Could Upend A Lucrative Business

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Tuesday February 16, 2016

Imagine if Ford remotely disabled the engine on your new F-150 pickup because you chose to have the door locks fixed at a corner garage rather than a dealership. Sound absurd? Not if you're Apple.

Opinion: Why Apple's Old Phones Make Sense For A New India

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Thursday February 04, 2016

Roughly 80 percent of India's population lacks access to the Internet. Apple, purveyor of some of the world's most expensive smartphones, has a solution. As the Indian Express reported last week, the U.S.-based company hopes to import used, refurbished Chinese iPhones into India and sell them cheaply. Later, it plans to build factories to refurbish iPhones in India it...

Opinion: Why Humans Fight, Both Now And 10,000 Years Ago

Noah Feldman, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 26, 2016

Is there a fundamental difference between war fought for reasons of belief and war fought out of self-interest? Is one more primitive than the other, or morally superior?

Opinion: Two-Child Policy for China is Too Little, Too Late

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Tuesday October 27, 2015

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.

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