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If you want to know why so few women hold executive positions at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., here’s the answer the Walton Institute gives out to management trainees: Women aren’t as aggressive at seeking promotions as men.

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So routinely do people and firms resolve SEC cases “without admitting or denying” wrongdoing, as the agency’s boilerplate phrase goes, that even the guiltiest of fraudsters who confess in criminal court to the most audacious of crimes never come clean with the SEC, which has its own, civil cases to resolve.

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When government scientists came up with the following idea, someone in the room should have said, “You want to do WHAT?” No one did, and so the U.S. Public Health Service in 1946 began paying diseased prostitutes to visit Guatemalan prisoners and infect them with syphilis.

Just when the Securities and Exchange Commission might hope to shed some of the shame of missing the biggest investment scam in U.S. history comes news that its own top lawyer profited from the scheme. He didn’t do it knowingly ...

It’s hard to beat the federal Defense of Marriage Act for an Orwellian-named law. The Attack on Marriage Act would be more like it. To a widow in New York, the statute means that the Internal Revenue Service considers her ...

In the film, “The Social Network,” one of the Winklevoss twins digs in his heels when his furious brother urges a lawsuit against a fellow Harvard student for stealing their idea and turning it into Facebook. (Which twin was which, ...

I tend to think of myself as a person. I’d hazard a guess that most, maybe all, American women consider themselves to be actual human beings, too.

It turns out that random workplace alcohol testing is a form of illegal discrimination under federal law, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

For better and for worse, Julian Assange pushes limits. In his work life and his sex life, he stands at the border dividing legal conduct from criminality, though it’s not clear which side of that border he occupies.

Feeling their oats after this year’s election, the Tea Party crowd and like-minded compatriots have another idea for America.

When a woman volunteers for the U.S. military, she gives up the comfort, safety and freedom of civilian life. This she expects, as do men.