John Greenya

How far can the FCC go in regulating blue language and nipple slips on broadcast media? Three decades since tackling the seven dirty words, the Supreme Court is poised to answer that question again.

More employers are subjecting job applicants to credit checks as a tool to determine honesty and responsibility, but is that accurate, or legal?

Millions of people worldwide die every year because of primitive cooking stoves. Around the globe, helpers ranging from Hillary Clinton to African entrepreneurs are making inroads.

Where a name appears in the alphabet may help explain how someone responds to waiting.

WANTED, Home care providers: flexible hours, good working conditions, low pay, age irrelevant, bring own insurance.

Athletes have long known that the ticket to getting into stadiums is practice. Thanks to a computer simulation and 70,000 avatars, that’s also the key to getting out of stadiums.

A coalition of major public universities has promised to halve the minority achievement gap in enrollment and graduation — and they set a deadline.

An inexpensive part of the federal effort to dig America out of the subprime crisis appears to have promise.

Not surprisingly, bankruptcy filings are on the rise and likely to increase. Is the 2005 bankruptcy reform act helping, hindering or neutral in this instance?

Confidence in the American food supply has been at a low ebb of late. A resumed federal focus and frequenting local producers may help reverse the tide.

Pink slips, salary cuts, delayed starts and other woes hit the U.S. legal profession hard in this recession.

Although bullying and its new-media sibling cyberbullying aren’t going away, we don’t need to be helpless in responding to them, argue the authors of a new guidebook.

Interview with retired legislator Harris Wofford, who helped birth such organizations as the Peace Corps.

Critics of 2005 legislation grow thicker as times grow harder.

Local governments take the lead in placing older Americans in public service opportunities.