Articles

“Academically Adrift” by Arum and Roksa (University of Chicago Press 2011)

Cairo - Dozens of communities across Syria erupted in protest on Friday in what activists said were by far the largest and bloodiest demonstrations against the iron rule of …

Cairo — A blogger was jailed recently for “insulting the military.” Human rights advocates say that thousands of people have been arrested and tried before military courts in the …

President Barack Obama talks with advisors in the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Washington - Congressional leaders and President Obama headed off a shutdown …

While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new …

Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.

This new corporate entity was, of course, not something that was physically real; it was an agreement, a so-called legal fiction authorized by a government.

(Photo: Morningstar Lee) And now for something completely different. About 15 years ago, before I became a regular columnist, The New York Times asked me and other …

(Photo: Zak Greant / Flickr) American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, …

(Photos: Shahriar Sunny) As the sun rose on March 28, 2011, roughly 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against a mining project that would displace tens of thousands …