Almost a year after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sullied the anti-corruption waters with its misleadingly-titled paper Restoring Balance: Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), two university law professors opposed to any change in the law have countered with a paper of their own. Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put reshaping a U.S. anti-bribery law near the top of its legislative wish list, setting up a battle pitting the powerful business lobby group against supporters of the statute who say it helps fight corporate corruption abroad.

President Obama’€™s jobs plan would provide some $5 billion in payroll tax cuts to Massachusetts workers while providing additional aid to help put thousands of unemployed people back to work, according to an analysis released yesterday by the White House.

According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week, median household incomes adjusted for inflation declined by 2.3% in 2010 over the previous year. The data also showed that 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty in 2010 — the highest number in the 52 years the Census Bureau has been tracking such […]

That whimper you hear is what’s left of the economic recovery. Markets are wobbling, joblessness remains high, consumer spending has slipped, and revised figures show — oops! — the economy didn’t grow from 2007 to 2010, as the government originally reported. Adjusted for inflation, it shrank.

Student anti-LGBT bullying cases “are probably the largest growth area -€ on the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division docket, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez told lawmakers Tuesday.

Getting online readers to pay for news is a challenge, but the new BostonGlobe.com offers hope for newspapers that want to create an app-like experience but control their own distribution.

At the CNN-Tea Party Debate in Tampa, Mitt Romney gave one of the strongest performances of his political career in front of a crowd that did not seem to care. From the standpoint of audience approval, with only a few exceptions, this was Rick Perry’s night. Watching this man play to his natural constituency, it […]

After the shooting in Norway that killed over 70, observers outside the country were astonished to learn that the longest prison sentence in Norway’s system is 21 years. Also, capital punishment there is illegal.

U.S. inspectors on Monday started using more sensitive tests to detect antibiotics in pork, part of a stepped-up effort to ensure meat safety after a government report last year suggested consumers might be at risk from harmful drug residues.

With a recent ratings downgrade, chronic unemployment, a growing budget deficit and a political system that seems determined to self-destruct, it might appear that the United States is losing its grip as the world’s top economic power.

For corporate tax reform to benefit U.S. businesses, it will have to shift focus to include small businesses, experts say. If multinationals are guaranteed a lower tax rate from the progressive, statutory corporate income tax rate of 35% in exchange for closing tax credits, then small businesses that have enough revenue will either rush to […]