A credit for first-time homebuyers enacted in 2008 has led to a massive tax fraud.

Riots are fascinating things. How lawless greed, cruelty, and violence suddenly set fire to the minds of men is one of the most mysterious, almost magical (though not in the positive sense) manifestations of human behavior. Already, on both sides of the Atlantic, lots of people are sure they know why England is burning.

There is no way to prepare for a passage to India--one must surrender to the chaos and feel helpless at the poverty and desperation of the vast mass of people here.

The effort to ban Bisphenol A, a polycarbonate plastic, as harmful to human beings is misguided.

Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, is a common, useful, and in some cases irreplaceable product in commerce, but now faces new regulatory challenges.

Research translating life and health benefits into dollars produces a range of answers; do fluctuating cost estimates make a difference in terms of policy choices?

Scholars and policymakers agree that we need some way of adding up potential costs and benefits in terms of lives saved and lives lost, but they disagree about how to do the adding.

By his actions--the sex, the lying, the obfuscation--Clinton has stained the presidency.