E pluribus unum , or “Out of many, one,” is a motto for the United States—the American States that are united. The many can refer, I suppose...

At the JP Morgan stockholder meeting on May 15, 2012, as the FBI was opening an investigation into the bank’s $2 (or $3 )billion loss on c...

In the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, some delegates expressed the concern that giving the General (federal) Government the autho...

Under pressure to join a unity government in Greece with the New Democracy and Socialist parties, Tsipras of a “radical left” Syriza party...

As Greek party leaders struggled to put together a government in May 2012 after a splintering election, a major (and contentious) issue wa...

The Socialists and then the New Democracy Party told Greeks that sacrifices were necessary to avert default on the state’s debt. This po...

Germany was ruling out any substantive shift in its approach to Europe's debt crisis despite a rising chorus of opposition to Berlin...

Documents released in May 2012 regarding Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers prove that he was aware of the high risk involved in holding so much...

On May 6, 2012, elections took place in six E.U. states. The most significant in terms of the debt crisis were those of France and Greece. ...

“A damning report [in late April 2012] on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers concluding that Mr. Murdoch is “not a ...

In the E.U., the principle of subsidiarity functions in theory like the Tenth Amendment does in the U.S.—again in theory. In both cases, p...

“ One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth...

In 12 years, Daniel Suelo has not made a penny; neither has he spent one. In 2000, he left his remaining $30 in a phone booth (remember th...

In September 2005, “a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidia...

T he “surprising escape” of Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist, from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats was “buoy...