On October 17, a French judge placed the nearly 90-year-old Liliane Bettencourt, a billionaire, under the guardianship of her grandson. The ruling was the culmination of a long battle with her only ...

In the Bible's story about the Judgment of Solomon, King Solomon ruled between two women both claiming to be the mother of a baby. The two mothers lived in the same house, where each mother cared for ...

Watching director Paul Schrader's psychosexual drama "The Canyons" isn't unlike watching a slow-motion train wreck. And, no, that's not a reference to the participation of Lindsay Lohan, the current ...

THIS book has attracted much attention in literary circles, but it deserves notice here also, because it is a good example of the present tendency to bridge the old gulf between the study of the ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Vinay Prasad is associate professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University and author of “Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer.” Ezekiel J. Emanuel is ...

I recently came home from a quick trip to Montana with my younger son. My teenager greeted me by briefly emerging from the rat's nest of his room, pointing at his headphones when I said "hi," and ...

Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...