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Ailes was unhappy with the Republican presidential field when he made his overtures to Petraeus in 2011, as New York's Gabriel Sherman reported in May 2011. The Fox contributors who were likely candidates — Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin ...

How interesting that emphasis on female breadwinning plays such an important role in the case made by journalist Liza Mundy, among others, for women's inevitable economic triumph. Historical experience suggests that winning bread is not all that she ...

Back in the late 1970s, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I auditioned to be the loudspeaker announcer during halftime at football games. It would be, I thought, a great gig: sitting in some box talking into a microphone, narrating the funny skits the band performed on the field. I made it to the final callback, but in the end the judges gave the slot to a guy. They told me afterward that it was just too hard to imagine a woman's voice coming out of a loudspeaker at an Ivy League stadium.

Each fall, medical students in their fourth and final year select a medical specialty and apply to residency programs. Residency, which lasts anywhere from three to eight years, is run by teaching hospitals. It's when newly minted MDs learn the hands-on, practical skills of doctoring -- how to make diagnoses, perform surgeries, order and interpret tests, etc. They also learn how to deal with patients and families, and work with other caregivers.

Michael Lind and Sherle Schwenninger of the New America Foundation have called for a federal Works Progress Administration-style infrastructure bank to help finance more than $2 trillion over five years. With interest rates low, and returns on ...

As the presidential election enters its final days, the battle over taxes remains front and center. Both Mitt Romney's plan and prominent deficit reduction proposals rely on "broadening the base" by eliminating tax expenditures, like deductions and credits, that act as spending through the tax code.

Both Liza Mundy (The Richer Sex) and Hanna Rosin (The End of Men) argue that the transition to a postindustrial, service- and knowledge-based economy—in conjunction with declining gender discrimination—are leading inevitably to women's economic ...

One-and-a-half years into Syria's civil war, the latest chapter is the armed hostility between Syria and Turkey, once a friend of the Assad regime. A century ago, it was Western powers that dismantled and carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Today, Turkey can place itself in the driver's seat of shaping the borders of the emerging Near East map.

When Boston software engineer Josh Weiss was deciding where to enroll his older daughter, Julia, in kindergarten in 2005, he was more than a little apprehensive about Hurley, the family’s neighborhood public school in the South End. Julia is white, which put her in a tiny minority at the school—at the time, one of about eight students out of 300. The vast majority of the school’s students were living in poverty, with many speaking Spanish, not English, at home.

In most industries, quality-improving and cost-cutting innovations don't sit around for years while people keep muddling through with old technology. When an innovation is ready for widespread use, it disrupts the market, whether the market wants it or not. In the process, some entrepreneur usually makes a killing.