With New START expired, stability depends less on transparency and more on disciplined ambiguity in managing nuclear ...

Andre Spicer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Well-meaning American negotiators over the years have done a disservice to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. To try to bridge the perhaps insurmountable gulf between the warring parties, ...

Under a doctrine established in the 1984 case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, courts defer to a federal agency's "permissible" or "reasonable" interpretation of an "ambiguous" statute.

We human beings love to know what we’re doing. And why shouldn’t we? We are comforted by following clear road maps, by going directly from point A to point B, and from having unambiguous answers at ...

Modern leadership is no longer about having the right answers on demand. In an age of permanent disruption, the leaders who endure are those who can hold ambiguity with calm and clarity — without ...

How can effective sustainable enterprises tackle social issues and, in the process, employ the important contributions that Eastern philosophies can make in this area? The model proposed here can ...

If ever the people on our planet faced uncertainty, now is that time. Only a few weeks ago, markets were at record highs. Optimism was rampant. You might have even found yourself humming “It’s a ...

Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: Why human language has so many words with multiple meanings. Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: why human language ...

These pages and the blogosphere have been abuzz about Academically Adrift, a new book that shows learning among college students is alarmingly limited. Numerous parties should be troubled by these ...