China 'collecting Dalai Lama blood samples'

Chinese agencies are secretly collecting samples of the Dalai Lama’s blood, urine and hair and are stepping up efforts to harm him, the Tibetan government in exile said on Sunday.

Is Elizabeth Warren Native American or Not?

Either way, there's little evidence she benefitted professionally.

What China Can Teach Facebook

As Facebook launches its IPO, it's worth taking a moment to consider what the Chinese market can teach the global social-networking leader.

On the trail of Steve Jobs

He was the ultimate tastemaker, but Steve Jobs lived in surprising suburban ordinariness.

The second most remarkable thing about Steve, though, was that for someone who changed the world so fundamentally – it's because of him that we all have computers – he seemed to have been brought up, worked and died within a small radius of his childhood home near Palo Alto, California. Somehow I always imagined Steve – barefoot Buddhist, design guru, tastemaker – not as a hometown boy, but someone more metropolitan or bohemian, or who would seek out a remote "spiritual" place to live.

Investors seeking a British Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg's status: married

Surprise update as Facebook founder weds university sweetheart Priscilla Chan after social network's share market listing

The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Ms. Chan's graduation from medical school.

How to end partisan gridlock

Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein / WashPost

Four solutions that might make a difference.

"Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it’s down to blood relatives and paid staff)."

'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave'

Is the era of real innovation over?

Why does the world's greatest democracy offer just two choices?

Voters are bored of both Republicans and Democrats, but a Pop Idol-style contest to find an alternative candidate has also failed to excite

"The nature of power is to hang on to it all costs. And that's what Republican and Democrat parties have done. The maze of rules and cost of getting on to the ballot in 50 different states is daunting to any potential third-party candidate for president - by design. And that is why, on the very rare occasion that someone has had the fortitude to take on the entrenched powers, they've usually had very deep pockets, like the billionaire Ross Perot, who was the last third-party candidate."

Critical of U.S. values, China’s elite still send their children to top U.S. colleges

Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan  /  WashPost

Costs fuel perceptions of Communist Party corruption.

In some ways, the rush to U.S. campuses by the party’s “red nobility” simply reflects China’s national infatuation with American education. China has more students at U.S. colleges than in any other foreign country. They numbered 157,558 in the 2010-11 academic year, according to data compiled by the Institute of International Education — up nearly fourfold in 15 years.

How to Choose a Running Mate

Mitt Romney faces a range of considerations as he makes his most important decision as the likely Republican nominee: Selecting someone to join him on the ticket.

Could We Trust Killer Robots?

A drone may never have a sense of morality—but it's possible one could perform better than a human in sparing the innocent.

White like him

Colbert I. King / WashPost

Mitt Romney is focused on America’s largest, and slowest-growing, racial group: his own.

Risk and the City

How London bankers learned to gamble.

Voters on the Fence

Why Barack Obama Needs to Keep Joe Biden

He's the most effective vice-president in history.

What the Chinese Want

Consumers in China are increasingly modern in their tastes, but they are not becoming 'Western.' How the selling of coffee, cars and pizza sheds light on a nation racing toward superpower status.

Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship?