April 14, 2015

Laurence D. Fink, chief of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, warns of harm in dividends and stock buybacks.

A nationwide strike may provide the first test for the Clinton campaign at managing the desire of voters and party activists for an aggressive approach to mitigating income inequality.

Senator Marco Rubio offers new energy for the Republican Party, but a challenge is whether voters seek another charismatic first-term senator with a compelling story.

An oppressively antic show, about the uneasy relationship between a teenager and her mother, plays like a series of songs, scenes and sketches with little connecting tissue.

Henry Rayhons’s sexual relationship with his wife, who was in an Iowa nursing home, has raised questions of consent.

The reactors at a plant in Fukui Prefecture had been expected to return to service after the introduction of post-Fukushima safety standards.

President Obama would sign a compromise bill giving Congress a voice on the proposed nuclear accord as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in rare unanimity, moved the legislation to the full Senate for a vote.

Some states have rethought the suspensions over unpaid debt amid concerns that the policy hurts poor residents without achieving its intended goals.

The rules would eliminate some loopholes that allow brokers to avoid acting as fiduciaries when providing advice on retirement accounts like 401(k)’s.

The sentences imposed ranged from six months in jail to seven years in prison. The educators were convicted of falsifying test scores.

Langdon Hammer provides the first biography of this important and complicated American poet who was born to high privilege.

Some facilities trying to attract higher-paying Medicare patients are not up to the challenge of providing the needed care; others are shunning Medicaid patients.