The way the world works is not in itself reason enough to dismiss the possibility of an ideal being more fully realized, and to refuse to t...

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

Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. Government grabbed more and more power from the governments of the member-states. Even within th...

Any time “scientists” at a company purport to have done a study involving said company in any way, the public has good reason to be suspici...

In testing out its search feature as a mobile app, Facebook's priority was still on mobile-ad revenue even in 2015. The stress on that ...

By the end of twenty-first century, Americans typically took it for granted that the United States constitute a nation equivalent to France...

The United States and the European Union are not typically thought of on either side of the Atlantic Ocean as commensurate, and thus compar...

A conflict of interest can be viewed as two conflicting roles, wherein the one entailing more public responsibility is compromised or eclip...

Reincarnation is a difficult gig for Buddhists. Being reborn for yet another life is not a good thing; bad karma (i.e., residue from bad ch...

Lake Mead, a reservoir outside Las Vegas serving 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona, Southern California, and Northern Mexico, was at its...

As the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC were reviewing the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner in April 2015, six U.S. se...

In 2014, the E.U. depended on Gazprom, a state-controlled Russian gas company, for one-third of the natural gas used in Europe. Meanwhile, ...

In spite of the fact that public-accounting firms rely on their respective audit clients’ decisions to be retained to perform the next year...

Considering the contribution of coal-burning power-plants to atmospheric carbon-emissions and thus global warming, governments around the w...

At the intersection of business and government, a conflict of interest can be indicative of plutocracy, the rule of wealth, at the expense ...