Go Your Own Way

by Simon Firth

Reed Hastings founded Netflix as a response to irritation over video store late fees, and now his company is the one rental chains want to emulate. Having prospered with direct-mail movies, can he lead the way toward on-demand entertainment?

by Joan O’C. Hamilton

As democracy in China struggles for a foothold, communication professor Jim Fishkin s deliberative polling experiment is pushing a governing principle that is both revolutionary and old-fashioned: ask the people what they want.

by Joel McCormick

On the eve of her departure from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor talks about her early anxiety as a Stanford student, the struggle to find a job as a lawyer and the challenges of a pathbreaking journey.

by Kevin Cool

by Michelle Friedland

by Charles Lane