On August 15, 2012, the New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice would not pursue criminal charges against Jon Corzine...

Catching up on newsworthy events from a very busy 2012.  Below are links to stories that caught our attention this past year, but never qu...

Timothy Geithner with President Obama aboard Air Force One Very important news coming out of Washington D.C. in recent days.  First, wit...

On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice announced the civil settlement of a major pattern of criminal misconduct by HSBC Holdings plc a...

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman With the "fiscal cliff" frenzy building, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman weighs in describing how tho...

Professor Steven Ramirez As teased earlier this week, the NYU Press has just announced the release of blog contributor Professor Steven ...

Originally posted at NYU Press, From the Square Blog, on November 21, 2012.   For many deca...

Extraordinarily interesting news out of England and the Premier League last month:  Several members of the Newcastle United Football Club...

The megabanks threw President Obama and the Democrats under the bus during the election of 2012 and doubled down on the GOP. With virtually...

Several frightening outcomes have surfaced following last week's presidential election.  Of course, many very positive takeaways have em...

A recent poll shows that a clear majority of American voters support legal and regulated marijuana by a margin of 56 to 36 . Other polls ...

Tuesday's election heralds a fundamental shift in our democracy. The map above shows the shrinking electoral base of the GOP. Even an ...

I posit that today in America the debates, the stump speeches and the TV ads all have almost nothing to do with how a given ca...

Protesting private prison profiteering The Corporate Justice Blog has taken up the issue of the privatization of the U.S. prison industr...