Who Drives Innovation?

Republicans like to argue that private companies are responsible for technological breakthroughs, but that's not true.

Monica Potts | March 3, 2011

Last month, many of us heard the story of Brett Hallman. Hallman's mother was early in her pregnancy when she learned her son would have spina bifida, a neurological disease that affects the spinal cord's development and, in the worst cases, makes children with the disorder unable to walk and have brain damage.