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Sheriff Joseph Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County prides himself on being “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” He also is America’s most litigious one. He has commenced a score of lawsuits and defended thousands. Most of the latter involve civil rights violations. His ...

For years financial educators have pleaded for some reasonable regulation of credit cards for college students and other young people under 21. The good news is that it has finally happened. One of the provisions of the Credit Card Accountability, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision that enables corporations to become full-throated participants in our political process by protecting their right to free speech raises a vexing philosophical question: If corporations are to get the same rights as people, why can’t ...

Because good news is all too rare in our culture wars, Americans should welcome a common-ground agreement released this month titled “Religious Expression in American Public Life: A Joint Statement of Current Law.” Drafted by a diverse group of religious-liberty ...

    I caught a cold last week from the woman in 7B.   You rarely get to single out Typhoid Mary, but I’d seen her in the terminal before boarding, coughing brazenly into the open air, making no move ...

    Plenty of people make resolutions to lose weight, get a new job or make other things happen in their personal life, but relatively few make solid resolutions about money. Make 2010 the year you’ll live a better life ...

If you’ve been shopping for a mortgage in these first few days of the 2010, then you may have already gotten the new good-faith estimate that all lenders are required to use by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...

When Fannie Mae hired former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman in 2004 to investigate how its accounting practices had gone awry, his law firm’s final report took 17 months to complete and cost the company more than $60 million. Compare that ...

If you’ve been shopping for a mortgage in these first few days of the 2010, then you may have already gotten the new good-faith estimate that all lenders are required to use by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...

For the weight given Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, you would think the Democratic majority status in the Senate hung in the balance. It didn’t. But its supermajority status did, and that’s what counts these days, sad to say. Without ...

Sergey Brin and Larry Page are finally living up to their motto: “Don’t Be Evil.” It turns out that Google Inc.’s founders have a conscience even after helping China censor cyberspace. This week, the most popular Internet search engine said ...