The outbreak of the Zika virus, like Ebola before it, has highlighted the risk that infectious diseases can pose to the health of entire countries – and...
One of the big unanswered questions in the finance world is: Do returns reflect risk or mispricing? Defenders of the efficient markets hypothesis say that...
The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has struck down Maryland’s law regulating assault weapons, creating a split with the 2nd Circuit, which upheld...
There are approximately 90,000 people incarcerated in the prisons of Pakistan including men, women, juveniles, minors with their mothers and so on.
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The biggest recent news from Oregon has nothing to do with the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge near the high-desert town of Burns. It's...
Everyone from buttoned-down Japanese central bankers to ex-slugger Jose Canseco (or whoever hacked his Twitter account) seems to be worried about the...
On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a PhD candidate at the University of Hyderabad in India’s Telangana state, hanged himself. Even in a country of 1.2 billion...
Delivering a rousing rejection of the established leadership of America's two political parties, New Hampshire voters produced a presidential primary...
