A decade after the No Child Left Behind federal law was enacted, “President Obama freed 10 states from some of its crucial provisions.”[1] ...

It is perhaps all too easy to perceive a sea-change in perception when the reality of societal change is much more gradual. There is someth...

On Charlie Rose , a television show,  in early 2012, a former CEO of Coke told Charlie that companies view corporate social responsibility ...

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority reached a deal for a unity government with Hamas on February 6, 2012—which was also th...

Conoco Phillips reported a 66% increase in earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, “attributed to high crude prices and asset sales.”[1] Wi...

“Fundamentally, the argument over Syria reflects a deeper divide between those who would use the Security Council to confront nations over h...

In ancient Athens as well as Renaissance Florence, direct and representative democracy co-existed. The representatives elected or chosen by ...

At the end of January 2012, 25 of the 27 E.U. states (all but Britain and the Czech Republic) indicated at a meeting of the European Counci...

The typical case in the U.S. is that the industry being regulated resists being regulated, while the regulators insist on enforcing the regu...

Corporate compensation—executive pay in particular—represents a “clear market failure,” so said Vince Cable, the business secretary in the E...

On January 13, 2012, “S&P stripped France and Austria of their prized triple-A credit ratings and reduced the ratings of seven other ...

It is difficult for us mere mortals to take a step back and view the wider trajectory that we are on. It is much easier to relate today’s in...

When George Lucus showed  Red Tails  to executives from all the Hollywood studios, every one of the execs said no. One studio’s executives d...

Sometimes a film is worth seeing just to watch an excellent actor capture an interesting character. This applies to Meryl Streep playing Jul...

On January 14, 2012, the American media reported that the U.S. Pentagon would bring home two brigades from Europe. That would reduce the U.S...