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Companies complain that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act creates an uneven playing field when doing business abroad in places corruption flourishes. Are they right?
U.S. forces in South Korea are on high alert after North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb last week. But China may be better positioned to curb North Korea’s menacing behavior.
Price in health care is a squishy concept. Different words relating to cost – charge, price and out-of-pocket cost – all have different meanings.
The Supreme Court will soon decide if it will hear a case involving the off-campus speech rights of students.
Two ESPN NFL reporters ordered in on New Year’s Eve. They just didn’t tell anyone they’d been paid to do so.
A new paper details how armchair activists – put together – can be a force.
Future taxpayers were the big losers of the trillion-dollar budget deal, who will have to shoulder the burden of higher interest payments.
As genders blur, language is rapidly adapting. Look no further than the American Dialect Society’s 2015 Word of the Year.
President Obama’s call for better electronic gun-safety systems put a spotlight on the technologies currently in the R&D pipeline that aim to make sure only authorized users can fire a gun.
Behind the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon lie decades of controversy over federal control of public land in western states.
The U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia goes back to the 1930s. Here’s why recent uneasiness doesn’t mean it’s ending anytime soon.
What explains the anger behind the Malheur occupation in Oregon, and why does the BLM own so much land in the West?
Field research in Oakland highlights a major issue that Americans have yet to face up to: how to deal with growing numbers of homeless older people in our streets.
The global color authority seems intent on obliterating the confines of gender-color associations.
The social media company seems to be mulling a massive increase in tweet length from the iconic 140 characters users have grown accustomed to.
States and regions are taking the lead on climate change action and, so far, are seeing economic and environmental benefits.
Will they stand with the protestors worried about an erosion of freedoms or with the companies eager to protect their intellectual property?
New method tallies microplastics in southern oceans, yielding a total that’s 37 times higher than previous estimates.
How tax authorities decide to treat virtual currencies like bitcoin may determine whether they thrive or die.
How can diverse societies agree on strategies for tackling complex problems? Lawrence Susskind and Ella Kim of MIT explain how role-playing games can help people learn to collaborate.
Demographic changes have made the idea of a two-state solution obsolete. The Israeli population is becoming more religious and more conservative. That makes the army more difficult to command.
An examination of orthopedic surgery and knee replacement showed that higher payments were associated with markets dominated by a few large physician groups.
Like much federal land in the US West, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has a long history tied to Native Americans’ plight and conflicts between settlers and the federal government.
Could a psychological approach alleviate the misery of the cold, dark wet winter?