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Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on the medical profession's move from the Hippocratic oath toward the "veterinary ethic."

New Orleans has been reborn as a tech town. Really.

Doctors may no longer diagnose hysteria, but it has a long history, as writer Asti Hustvedt shows with a selection of her favorite books on the subject, including Freud's classic study and Georges Didi-Huberman's analysis of a hysteria craze in Paris in the late 19th century.

Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, the solar cell and many other wonders of the modern world. Did the big corporations of the past innovate better than today's start-ups? Bob Metcalfe reviews Jon Gertner's "The Idea Factory."

"Island of Vice" tells the story of how a young Theodore Roosevelt, the police commissioner, decided to clean up the mess that was 1890s New York. David Wondrich reviews.

David Dorsen's biography of Henry Friendly is an intricate account of a judge who shaped 20th-century American law.

The Communist Party purges a populist leader.

Some men think they can get away with vulgarity because they're on the 'correct' side on social issues; others tire of being bullied by the language police.

There are significant changes in the labor market, including the liberalization of 108 restricted professions.

What happened to Ted Stevens will keep happening to ordinary Americans unless judges change the rules.

Nondiscrimination laws become a morass of claims and counterclaims.

Are the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks risking a potential Senate Republican majority in the name of ideological purity?

With so many ships trawling the crowded waters of the Persian Gulf, there is always the risk of an 'accident' or 'collision' with unintended consequences.

David Pimentel on criminal child neglect and the 'free range kid.'

It touched $600 on Thursday, still cheap if the company can keep up its torrid growth. If.

Regulators discover a crime wave in markets they don't control.

On April 1, Japan cedes the highest corporate tax rate to America.

Partisan rancor, corruption and a scandal involving a dancer called 'Toodles.' Maybe today's politics aren't so unusual after all. Michael Moynihan reviews "Rogues and Redeemers."

The FDA's Scheme to Reclassify Nutrients as Drugs, 8-3-11

Poland blocks the next step in the EU's anticarbon plans.