Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

New technology was supposed to bring us a streamlined, paperless voting system. But in Maryland, Governor Martin O'Malley is pushing for the state to move away from touch-screen voting and toward a system of paper ballots and optical...

Technology can be liberating or infuriating -- just look at the ordinary cellphone. Some make complex tasks easy, others make easy tasks complex. If you could change the keypad, the phone operating system, or the functionality -- what...

The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates this morning in the hopes of fending off a much-predicted drop in the stock market. Observers say it was the biggest single cut in more than two decades, but its impact on Wall Street is still an...

From Johannesburg to Rio de Janeiro, the crowded shantytowns that spring up on the edge of big cities are often a source of political turmoil and crime. But today's urban planners are beginning to rethink their assumptions about urban...