The Equal Rights Amendment may not have passed, but many of its principles seem embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment.
The surge of new wealth in America is creating a bumper crop of large foundations. History suggests that they can accomplish a great deal. But it’s not always easy to do good.
If rich old King Croesus were living in America today, he’d be hard-pressed to keep up with the Joneses.
The United States has not enjoyed a surge of new wealth to rival today’s since the days when people read by gaslight, yet that era holds valuable lessons about the hazards of new fortunes.
Teddy Roosevelt had no objection to men of great wealth, only to the “malefactors of great wealth.”
Elizabeth MacBride on the culture of stock and commodities exchanges
Iran's system of compensating organ donors is being watched closely by transplant advocates and medical ethicists alike.
Despite man's best efforts--or, more precisely, because of them--a Hawaiian raven is all but extinct in the wild.
Philip Gold on America's all-volunteer force