If you had walked onto a trading floor thirty years ago, you would have heard noise before you saw anything. Phones ringing, ...

On February 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule to modify the analysis for determining independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The ...

Veterans will have their disability compensation evaluated based on whether their prescribed medication or treatment improves their illness or injury, according to a new federal rule. The Department ...

As the Department of Labor’s (DOL) composition ebbs and flows from administration to administration, so does the guidance employers receive on one of the most challenging questions in workforce ...

A world that once imagined it had buried the demons of the 1930s now finds them prowling again — less dramatic, perhaps, but no less corrosive. The post-war order, born in San Francisco in 1945, was ...

The proposal would rescind the Biden-era approach to classification, replacing it with what is considered a more business-friendly standard.

Over a period of nine days, users prompted Grok, the platform’s A.I. chatbot, to generate more than 1.8 million of these ...

Swedish oat drink company Oatly has lost a long-running court battle over whether it can use the word "milk" to describe some of its products. The firm has been in a legal battle with Dairy UK, the ...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a sobering diagnosis of our times: the rules-based international order is fading; the strong increasingly do as they ...

The shared structures that have underpinned global cooperation for years are crumbling, according to world leaders. Can the international rules-based order be saved, and how could the future look ...

Romila Thapar and Namit Arora debate the divide between rigorous scholarship and popular history, revealing the tensions within modern historiography.

Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...