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Host Michel Martin talks about the top political headlines with Republican strategist Ron Christie and 'Political Junkie' host Ken Rudin....

These days more and more foods are straddling the line between prepared and unprepared, taxable and nontaxable. And that leaves policymakers with a strange conundrum: what to do about pizza....

Republican governors across the country have taken a stand against Obamacare by refusing to expand Medicaid. Utah, one of the reddest states in the nation, remains undecided....

Thomas Piketty says governments must impose heavy taxes to break up concentrations of wealth. Edward Conard says governments should cut taxes to encourage wealthy people to pursue even bigger profits....

What is the mix of bachelor's degrees awarded today? And how has it changed since 1970?...

What does the new plan mean for the tech industry and the economy? Host Michel Martin speaks with immigration lawyer Laura Murray-Tjan and Vinny Lingham, entrepreneur and immigrant from South Africa....

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The lure of shadow banking Fly Title:  Climate change Rubric:  Scientists versus diplomats at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “THE less people know about how laws and sausages are made, the better they sleep at night.” That comment, attributed to Bismarck, could equally apply to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The lure of shadow banking Fly Title:  Schumpeter Rubric:  Leaders of Western companies are less globally minded than they think they are Main image:  20140510_WBD000.jpg THE heads of multinational companies like to think of themselves as generals in the globalisation wars. They dream of conquering fresh markets in the East. They...

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The lure of shadow banking Fly Title:  The euro zone One thing that the European Central Bank (ECB) does not lack is advice on tackling low inflation. This week the OECD added its voice to that of the IMF in April in urging prompt action, calling for a cut in the bank’s main lending rate, from the already low 0.25% reached in November to zero....

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The lure of shadow banking Fly Title:  Charlemagne Rubric:  Stagnation and a looming political backlash make optimism about the euro overdone Main image:  20140510_EUD000_0.jpg TWO sets of numbers tell a contradictory story about the euro zone. Economic data point to improvements by the month, even by the day: growth is picking up...

SHADOW banking contributed to the financial crisis. But with better regulation, says our correspondent, it could help reduce the severity of the next Comment Expiry Date:  Fri, 2014-05-23 ...

The stock market has been on a winning streak of late. How else to explain three homes that each reportedly sold for more than $100 million in the past three months?...

There are more than 2 million farmers in this country, but most of them have other jobs that bring in the money, retirement benefits and health insurance that they need....

Desiree Metcalf did not just become poor. A lot of bad things happened to get her here. Like many others who are poor, she doesn't have just one or two problems, but a whole pile of them....

Many American families living in or right above the poverty line have flat-screen TVs, cars and cellphones — so what does living in poverty mean today?...

Steve Inskeep talks to Matthew Bishop, finance editor of The Economist , about Nigeria's economy. The biggest country in Africa has also just become the continent's largest economy....

There's been a lot of news about Bitcoin, including new guidance from the IRS. So is it time to get some of that digital cash? The Wall Street Journal' s Michael Casey speaks with host Michel Martin....

Alibaba is the largest online and mobile commerce site in the world, controlling a huge portion of the Chinese market....

AS the anniversary of the first world war draws closer, we will be hearing more and more arguments about the causes, both long- and short-term, of the global bloodbath. Was it just a battle between rival powers over markets and resources? Did class conflict play a role? Was it a clash between different ideologies? Or was some spiritual malaise at work? A conservative public intellectual, George Weigel,...

KATHLEEN WYNNE seemed like the fresh face the flagging Liberal government in Ontario desperately needed when she took over as party leader and premier in January 2013. As the first woman to head Canada’s most populous province and the first openly gay premier in the country, she was at least superficially a change from Dalton McGuinty, whose decade-old Liberal government had become mired in a series...