In Essence

"The rule of law" is the latest thing in economics. Trouble is, no one is quite sure what it means, or whether it yields positive results.

Chief executive pay went up by more than 500 percent, on average, from 1980 to 2003, but so did the value of the top 1,000 firms.

Highly educated women delay having children longer than those without as much schooling, and face greater wage losses if they don’t.

Multitasking is bad on the road, bad in the office, and, well, just plain bad.

One things been made clear by the housing crisis: not everyone should own their own home. Renting has its merits.

Those looking for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker would do well to listen to the locals.

A recent book criticizes the school choice movement, and opens up a hornets' nest of angry retorts.

The news media focused on Kim Jong Il's peculiarities while missing the story on North Korea developing nuclear capabilities.

How does today's young generation get their news? Mostly they don't.

The French turned over far more money to the Nazi occupiers in World War II than the armistice called for, so much, in fact, that the Germans could not spend it all.

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