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Standard & Poor’s recent downgrading of the US credit rating is being billed in the media as a major blow to the economic credibility of the nation and to …

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) If Americans expected some sign of dramatic policy initiatives from Federal …

The European sovereign debt crisis is little more than a huge ‘bait and switch’ perpetrated on the publics of Europe, by their governments, on behalf of their banks. We …

See part two in this series, here, and part three, here. Emily Berman: Today, I begin an exchange with Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Professor of Law …

I don’t believe that money is speech, but I’ve repeatedly seen that money motivates dishonest speech, much of it uttered by paid “experts.” This money-motivated dishonesty is a recurring …

Farmer Surinder Singh Chawla checks on the wheat in his fields in Punjab, India, in April of 2008. (Photo: Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) A …

Simi Mehra moved to India two years ago, when her husband’s Chicago-based firm collapsed in the wake of the financial crisis. But Mehra isn’t sorry. Arun landed a well-paying …

United Nations - Legislation incorporating gender identity protection has ignited debate among activists for gay and lesbian rights, with some arguing that the legislation actually endangers women and threatens …

In his May 19, 2011 speech on the Middle East, President Obama made an oblique reference to the Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations. He …

Baabda Women's Prison, Lebanon - To a soundtrack of almost constant pounding of fists against iron doors, drama therapist Zeina Daccache is trying to capture the attention of a …