Michael Fitzgerald

Would you pay your kid to read a book? Do you think crack addicts should be paid to get sterilized? Are skybo…

At 23, Seth Priebatsch has a life that's all about winning, and not much else. Seth Priebatsch comes to his o…

Photograph by Tom Schierlitz CENTRAL SQUARE LOOKS like a grimy remnant of pre-knowledge economy Cambridge, do…

In the fall of 2010, Shobha Srinivas replaced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as the face of microcre…

ON A PLEASANT DAY in May, Sam Millen stands on the first floor of the former commercial bakery in Somerville …

HAVE computers stopped getting faster? If you looked only at the clock speeds of microprocessor chips, you mi…

On an unremarkable day in late fall 2009, Ron Shaich, the Brookline-based CEO of Panera Bread Co., was tourin…

On a chilly night in Manhattan, Julie Greenwald is steamed. "I hate free! Why should people get music for fre…

We know how innovation works. We get iPhones; those less fortunate overseas get whatever we dropped in the re…

A look at the forgotten history of the pipe wrench, an essential element of modernity.