On 1 June, 2026, the E.U.’s two legislative chambers agreed informally on text for a law called Return Regulation, which is oriented to faci...

As U.S. President Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, 2025, Elon Musk, shareholder and CEO of Tesla, announced that he...

There is an expression in politics referring to how legislation is made; it is likened to the making of sausage, the public display of which...

To Aaron Swartz, the subject of the documentary,  The Internet’s Own Boy  (2014), the major concern in his day regarding the internet was n...

The law passed by Congress on January 3, 2013 to avert the across-the-board tax increases and “sequester” (i.e., across-the-board budget ...

Too much power in a few hands is inherently dangerous. That goes for private as well as public, or governmental, power. In the world of soc...

Rex Tillerson, the U.S. Secretary of State fired by U.S. President Donald Trump and former CEO of Exxon, an international oil company based...

In the U.S. Constitutional Convention, James Madison in particular stressed the nepharious quality of faction in relation to the public goo...

Regarding the Chinese government’s attempts to rein in microblogging and television programming, the  New York Time s  observed in 2011, “...

Organizational lapses, such as in non-profits or companies, regarding institutional conflicts of interest can extend in impact as far as di...

California water regulators proposed a record $1.5 million fine on July 21, 2015 against the Byron Bethany Irrigation District (BBID) in th...

In May 2015, Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland both acknowledged colluding to set the “fix” rate in foreig...

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“Dark trading” has a subterranean connotation, as if it were done by slithering snakes in the river Styx. In actuality, the term refers to ...

The sordid, all-consuming encroachments of electoral politics into governance in the U.S. Congress could all-too-easily ride the entrail...

Being able to count on a person or company thereof having sufficient motivation to provide a self-defense is no feat, for self-interest is...

Meeting on May 23, 2012, the E.U.’s European Council failed to come up with a plan to offset the recessionary aspect of Greece’s budget cu...