In place of high-stakes testing, the college is letting applicants hand in a high-stakes homework assignment. The system sounds like it's just begging to be gamed by wealthy students.
Also: functional government.
Old trends: Soaring US carbon dioxide emissions, skyrocketing medical costs, out-of-control deficits. New trends: Tumbling emissions, creeping medical costs, falling deficits.
Why Americans need to care as much about how their local tech schools are performing as about where the Ivies rank.
If we don't raise the debt limit, we know we would get mega-austerity and maybe a new financial crisis. But just how bad could it get?
The short answer: Writers are fleeing to the small screen.
China's top e-commerce company wants to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. It's a reminder that, while global politics might be frozen, global commerce is not.
In giant, complex systems like global financial markets, terrible accidents are inevitable.
It appears the creators of Candy Crush Saga are ready to cash in on the success of the simple three-of-a-kind matching game.
Extreme poverty among elderly women shot up between 2011 and 2012. What's going on?
The wage gap is a complicated issue, but here's a simple chart showing where it's most severe.
The U.S. jobs market is getting more normal! The euro-zone recession is over! The Japanese economy is alive! And more...
OK, I'm biased -- but I think this is an interesting new project.
The first part is demonstrably false. The second is just deeply misguided.
And its essential lessons about money and the economy today
And Google. And Microsoft. And Home Depot.
On Tuesday (Sept. 24), the Wall Street Journal reported that JP Morgan was offering the government $3 billion to settle an unspecified number of criminal probes after the Department of Justice threatened to file suit in an investigation of its pre-crisis mortgage dealings.
Regulators want the bank to pay $11 billion to possibly settle investigations touching on everything from mortgage fraud to the Madoff scandal.
The case for forcing the university to spend its money
The truly scary thing about blowing through the debt limit isn't what we think will happen. It's that we actually have no idea what will happen.