January 14, 2015

An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranked states by tax burden and concluded that the poorest have the biggest burden in local taxes.

The continuing assault on the 2010 Dodd-Frank law has achieved remarkable success, especially compared with the repeated failures of opponents of another 2010 law, the Affordable Care Act.

With a Republican majority in Congress looking to cut taxes and spend less, it is easy to forget that tightfisted government imposes real costs.

Democrats and Republicans alike are rethinking the vast, costly system of policing and incarceration that was born of a crime wave decades ago.

“Constellations,” starring a perfectly matched Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, may be the most sophisticated date play Broadway has seen.

The failures of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign and the possibility of a Jeb Bush candidacy have many Republicans hoping there won’t be a third try in 2016.

A fuller portrait of the Kouachi brothers has emerged as an international effort is focused on determining who may have been behind the attack on Charlie Hebdo, and what direct role terror organizations may have had in ordering the assault.

Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe are said to be offering $415 million to settle accusations that they conspired against their own employees.

Bob Odenkirk prepares for the new show “Better Call Saul,” which features the character he played on “Breaking Bad.”

Gov. Chris Christie, believing that there is more than enough political money to go around, has delivered a surprising message to his top supporters and donors: Relax.

The Roswell, N.M., site had been the home of an Atlas-F missile, 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The silo is a fixer-upper, to put it mildly.

Academy Award prognosticating started in the 1980s, but the real turning point came around 2005.