Tax avoidance by the superwealthy is an economic issue as well as a political one.

One bad hire can cost a company 30 percent of the employee’s first-year earnings, while some estimate the cost between $240,000 and $850,000 per employee.

Thirteen years ago, no state allowed marijuana for recreational purposes. Today, most Americans live in a state that allows ...

Democrats have a problem: too many problems. Identifying the problems is not one of those problems. “Democrats have a trust problem,” suggests Representative Jason Crow of Colorado. “Democrats have a ...

Entrepreneurs who build successful businesses often possess a unique ability to see what others don't—the critical bottlenecks hiding in plain sight that create frustration, inefficiency, and lost ...

Sometimes their daughter's or son’s adolescent passage can weary parents: “It’s just one difficulty after another. Deal with the last and right away we’re faced with the next!” In their tired eyes, ...

If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Demonstrators: We need clean air, not another billionaire. We need clean air ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...