March 25, 2011

General Electric is skilled at avoiding taxes, lately to the extent that the Treasury owes the company money.

Joseph Lelyveld’s vivid, nuanced and cleareyed study of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on his role as a social reformer, in both South Africa and in India.

Lanford Wilson reflected the disenchantment that came to pervade the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, but his work exuded a sentimentality that seemed to come from an earlier time.

Some economists say Europe should force investors to take a loss on their bond holdings rather than bail Portugal out.

China is building two nuclear reactors with a radically different design that is meant to decrease the chances of a meltdown.