February 23 was an important day for New Yorkers, although many did not know it. On this day, the Landmarks Preservation Commission...

In the early 1930s, the rural Tennessee Valley region experienced a crisis extreme by even Depression-era standards: Malaria was running...

Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement....

As politicians continue the battle against gambling addiction by regulating casinos and online poker, a new mobile gaming addiction has...

Organic foods have exploded in popularity since the 1990s. 45 percent of Americans actively seek to include organic foods in their diets,...

Consider this scenario: Your favorite mid-level rock band has just announced a nationwide tour. You’ve been listening to their new album...

For the last three decades, anti-debt polemics have been the cause célèbre of self-styled “fiscal conservatives.” Over the course of...

In a recent Gallup survey, respondents ranked different professions according to perceptions of honesty and ethical standards. Nurses hit...

There are many things that can give financial markets jitters, but only a few do so with clockwork regularity. The United States Federal...

“Raised in rural Idaho miles away from the closest neighbor, Dan Price founded Gravity Payments, a credit card processing company, from...

More children in the United States live in poverty today than did during the Great Recession, according to a recent report by the Annie...

In the 1990s, the tobacco industry faced prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) when it covered...

Pleading with your neighborhood Uber driver to let you and your nine drunk friends into the back of their Honda Civic may soon be a thing...

The Fifth Amendment encompasses so much more than TV crime shows would lead you to believe; it’s not solely “pleading the fifth,”...

Over the past couple of years, Republicans have felt increasing pressure to put forth free market proposals to combat poverty....

Every day, more and more Swedish workers are working less and less. This is not because of unemployment or laziness, but due to a...

Across the United States, autumn is a time of seasonal preparation: for colder weather in the North, hurricane season in the Southeast,...

On June 17, the California Labor Commission ruled that Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick was an “employee” of Uber. For most users of the...

For the future of American infrastructure, the August Congressional recess looms large. Since the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act...

A single figure disproportionately determines the tone and direction of political activity from Capitol Hill to Brussels, and that figure...