Just after New Jersey’s legislature passed a law legalizing gay marriage, Gov. Chris Christie followed through on his promise to reject the ...

In mid-February 2012, Mario Monti of the E.U. state of Italy addressed the European Parliament. In his speech, he advocated increasing the ...

An audit in 2012 by San Francisco county officials of about 400 foreclosures “determined that almost all involved either legal violations or...

Downton Abbey , a television series that began in 2011 on PBS’s  Masterpiece Classics , depicts through narrative life in a British manor ...

In a move to shore up popular support before the presidential election in 2012, Vladimir Putin called for a windfall levy on the dishonest ...

In 2012, Congress lost sight of the fundamental purpose of a safety net, extending it beyond the difference between life and death. By zeroi...

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...