Is offering assistance to illegal immigrants a protected religious practice? One trouble with liberty is that you never know what people will do with it. In recent years, American conservatives have been passionate defenders of individual religious freedoms, such as the right to have nothing to do with same-sex weddings. But Scott Warren, an idealistic geographer who is facing felony charges for..
How Warren Buffett's billions may help Bernie Sanders defy ABBA Bernie Sanders, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, will face plenty of opposition to his latest plan to force companies to hand over shares to workers. But at least he will not have to compete with ABBA. When the Swedish Social Democrats proposed the same idea in 1982, the pop group behind "The Winner Takes it A..
The chasm in life-expectancy that once existed has nearly closed Back in 1980 when Harlem was still a byword for poverty, criminality and the decline of New York City, black men in the neighbourhood had a worse chance of living to the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh did. At that time Harlem's residents - almost all of them black, and many of them poor - died of heart disease at double the rate ..