The decline in unemployment inflows is interpreted as a decrease in the intensity of idiosyncratic labor demand shocks, a key parameter in search and matching models of unemployment.

A new database can combine administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States.

President Obama says that he has "complete confidence" in Attorney General Eric Holder. That's good news for Republicans. Pick almost any unnecessary, losing battle in Obama's first term, and his hapless attorney general is at the center of it.

What is the variability of business growth rates since 1976 in the private sector of the United States?

Followers of cancer-stricken strongman Hugo Chávez are stunned after nearly 3 million Venezuelans voted Sunday to select a unity candidate to compete in presidential elections scheduled for October. If the opposition has any real hope of defeating Chavismo, they will have to be prepared for dirty tricks, provocations, and even a narco-coup in the months ahead.

The Supreme Court's new ruling on Miranda rights may ease the burdens on the American military, intelligence, and police, and give the Obama administration more flexibility to fight terrorism within the criminal-justice paradigm.

A Spanish translation of Ambassador Noriega's "Venezuela's Democrats may face Chavez's narco-coup"

The extension of Miranda rights is a symptom of two larger maladies that threaten to harm the body public.