Obama is more likeable, but trust Romney more to handle the economy It's official: With President Barack Obama's( both the Republicans and Democrats have chosen their nominees for the 2012 presidential election. Let the...

Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman and House Budget Committee chairman, as his vice-presidential running mate in August 2012 was unusual in that it generated something rarely seen in politica...

A robust and self-sustaining U.S. recovery is not on the cards, and we should now expect below trend growth for many years to come, according to Nouriel Roubini, the economist famed for his bearish views. Roubini, best-k...

Mitt Romney, during his 2012 presidential campaign, proposed bringing in McKinsey & Company — the global management consulting giant where he began his business career before co-founding Bain Capital — to conduct a compr...

India's corruption problem is not a peripheral dysfunction of an otherwise functional system. It is structural—woven into the incentive architecture of how political parties fund themselves, how government contracts are...

It was just six words from a 29-minute news conference, but President Barack Obama's assertion that "the private sector is doing fine" looks primed to play a starring role in this already-fevered campaign season. Preside...

The conversation about inequality in America has increasingly centered on a distinction that was, until relatively recently, obscured by the broader category of "the rich": the difference between the merely affluent — do...

The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton might be tapped as Barack Obama's running mate for the 2012 election — replacing Joe Biden on the ticket — circulated periodically through 2011 and into 2012, driven partly b...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Home prices slipped in nearly every major metropolitan area in November, with a few cities hitting their lowest levels since prices peaked about four years ago, according to a closely watched index released Tuesday. From...

The woman who stood up at a televised town hall meeting and told Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" of defending him — that the change he had promised had not arrived for her family, that her husband had been unemploy...

Mukesh Ambani's decision to build Antillia — a 27-story private residence in the heart of Mumbai requiring a staff of 600 to maintain, estimated to have cost between $1 billion and $2 billion — generated a debate about w...