A commission charged with finding ways of creating new jobs was warned the state’s job creation will continue to lag unless Massachusetts improves the quality of its public schools and lowers the cost of housing.

Borrowing by U.S. consumers has been falling since the middle of the recession – in the aggregate, anyway. Beneath the surface, people at the high end of the income scale have been paying down their loans, but the little guy is not making any progress, and in fact is facing higher credit card balances. But […]

The folks who run Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank. They’re making money hand over fist, and all they have to do is sit back and watch as the people who comprise their product volunteer tons of incredibly personal information. Then they sell access to that information to any advertiser or other […]

The man who nearly assassinated President Ronald Reagan in 1981 may be freed after nearly 30 years in a hospital.

Should the government give your tax dollars to radio stations for programs that entertain, inform and, critics say, promote an elitist political agenda?

The death of Jamie Hood’s brother to a police bullet in 2001 and Mr. Hood’s dramatic surrender Friday in Athens, Ga., after a four-hour hostage standoff offers a provocative — and personal — timeline of rising tensions between police and street criminals in the last decade, leading to more bloodshed on the beat even as […]