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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is anti-woman. That’s the position of Ellen Pao, a junior partner at the venture capital firm who filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court contending “discriminatory treatment of Plaintiff and other female employees, specifically in advancement and compensation because of their gender.”

In 2009, an economist named Paola Sapienza came up with an image to describe the challenge the U.S. economy faced after the financial crisis. The economy was like a board game, Sapienza, a professor at Northwestern University, told me. Especially like the old favorite “Monopoly.”

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. Seven in 10 expect to celebrate it in some way this Oct. 31, up from about six in 10 last year, according to a National Retail Federation report.

Another week, another tot gets his rights violated. A few days before Easter, police in Maspeth, N.Y., handcuffed a first-grader who had a temper tantrum after coloring an egg at school. But there’s something awry in these school scenes. Child. Tantrum. Principal. Police. Mom. Civil Rights. Lawyer. Lawsuit. There are a lot of players in such scenarios, but someone is missing. It’s the one person who has dedicated years of training to help a freaked-out child through a difficult moment without creating a federal case: the teacher.

To clean out and start over right. That’s the great impulse that Americans act on each spring. We tell ourselves there’s nothing wrong with this process repeating annually. In religion, the cycle is always there: sin, repent, purge.

Anxious families awaiting April college admission news are living their own March Madness. Their insanity is captured in Andrew Ferguson’s new book, “Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College” (Simon & Schuster). He describes the vanity of a desperate mother at a cocktail party who is dying to announce her daughter’s perfect SAT scores: “‘We were really surprised at how well she did,’ the mother would say, running a finger around the rim of her glass of pink Zinfandel. Her eyes plead: Ask me what they were, just please please ask.”

Can this economy go the distance? The U.S. expanded by 3.2 percent in the last quarter. Americans long for an economy that grows at 4 percent, quarter after quarter, strong enough to shrug off revolution in Egypt, central bank machinations in China and Steve Jobs’s health.

Time was when you could rely on taxes to be the topic in the U.S. come mid-April. No longer. This year it’s jobs, jobs, jobs. In Washington, Democrats want to extend expiring unemployment insurance. They see their plan as action ...

The U.S. Labor Department announced it will investigate unpaid internships at private-sector companies to clamp down on firms violating wage laws. “If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there aren’t going ...

You know the stereotypes about college giving. Alums give after their school’s marquee team, football or basketball, wins a conference championship. They give when there’s a family connection to the school. They give when they want their child to get ...

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Double-digit unemployment looms. The country is in a funk. The federal budget deficit is widening to an extent not seen in decades. This scenario isn’t new. It also describes the U.S. in 1982. Somehow, the 1980s and the 1990s turned ...

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