In the mix of politics and government in any republic, stretches of governance are marked off by much shorter electoral seasons.  As decisi...

On the day after Osama was killed by Obama, people in the American states were united in a feeling of pride for their union. Midway throug...

The failure of Lehman Brother suggests that too much power may go with formal position while non-positional leadership in organizations ...

Structural, or institutional, conflicts of interest are of great significance in applied ethics, even though they often play second fiddle...

According to U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Goldman Sachs “profited by taking advantage of its clients’ reasonable expection[s] that it would no...

Despite several days of overwhelming popular grass-roots protest in Egypt, on January 30, 2011, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clint...

Crude oil was first drilled in 1859 in northwestern Pennsylvania (not in the desert of the Middle East). It was not long before oil lamps be...

Art through corporate bureaucracy can be likened to oil and water. The rise of the studio system to produce film as an art form thus evinc...

In the month before the Oscars, Turner Classic Movies runs films under the promo, "Thirty One Days of Oscar."  Interestingly, in ...

A year after the BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, only $4 billion of the $20 billion fund alloted by BP had been paid to claiman...

Goldman Sachs’ ethics code reads in part, “[We] expect our people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do. . . . From time...

Michael Carrigan, a member of the City Council in Sparks, Nevada, “says he was trying to make sure his vote on a proposed casino, one that h...

 

On March 21, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives approved “a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health system . . . , voting over u...

As the governor, or head of state, of Texas, Rick Perry has been on a crusade to reinvigorate American federalism. Referring to the effort...