September 19, 2012

Maybe the way to start building a consensus about how much people should be taxed is to make the connection between the taxes people pay and the benefits they finance.

The jockeying among nations has begun as areas of the Arctic once regarded as barren wastelands now offer an abundance of oil, gas and minerals.

Binghamton University students said pledging for fraternities and sororities on campus included having to hold hot coals and a version of waterboarding.

Apple has upgraded nearly every feature on the iPhone 5, but there’s a problem with universal compatibility.

Samsung’s campaign takes on the iPhone 5 directly, claiming its new Galaxy phone is better.

In Lisa D’Amour’s play “Detroit,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist at Playwrights Horizons, a couple who fear they are sliding out of their economic class meet a couple who have other problems.

Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are entering the turbulent world of book publishing.

The museum’s new galleries for Islamic art, which open to the public on Saturday, are the most radical architectural intervention at the Louvre since I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid.

The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund is paying out more than $1 billion a year — much more than it has been taking in — and experts say the fund could collapse within a few years.

A deal in which Pedro Espada Jr. received money from Soundview Healthcare’s liquidation suggests he violated his bail terms and should lose his freedom, prosecutors say.

Its first-class mail volume dropping, the Postal Service hopes to substitute marketing material, even as consumers seek ways to block the catalogs and credit card applications.

The Justice Department’s inspector general faulted a group of federal prosecutors and drug agents in the botched gun-trafficking case called Operation Fast and Furious.