January 15, 2009

Things got so bad on Terrace Avenue that residents sometimes called it Terror Avenue. After a major police effort there has been a plunge in arrests.

Liaquat Ahamed’s book is supposed to be an economic history of World War I and the Great Depression. But there is terrific prescience to be found in its portrait of times past.

The financial crisis is hurting Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to establish a Socialist-inspired state.

A new breed of swindlers calling themselves “foreclosure rescue companies” is preying on desperate homeowners.

Citigroup wants to sell unprofitable businesses and troublesome assets, but investors wonder whether other companies will have the will or the means to buy them.

The Palestinian Authority’s top party, Fatah, seems increasingly marginalized, even in the cities it controls.

Whether Ruth Madoff knew of her husband’s scheme or whether she didn’t are two unnerving possibilities.

As demand for oil has plunged, companies up and down the energy pipeline are acting in ways that would have been unimaginable until recently.

Though no credible threat has been detected, the security measures are by far the most extensive for a swearing-in.

In addition to the strike on the United Nations compound, an Israeli bombing killed a senior Hamas official in Gaza.

A ragtag group of kids from a residential treatment center have defied the odds and will be marching in the inaugural parade.

Gregg Nations, a co-producer and script coordinator, is the person in charge of keeping track of the show’s byzantine twists and turns.