As Facebook has generated scandal after scandal in recent years, critics have started to wonder how we might use antitrust laws to rein in the company’s power. But many of the most pressing concerns about Facebook are its privacy abuses, which unlike price gouging, price discrimination or exclusive dealing, are not immediately recognized as antitrust […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Airtel Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of Indian telecoms group Bharti Airtel Ltd , is considering a stock market flotation in London, it said on Tuesday, part of efforts to expand its data and mobile money services across Africa. The company is aiming to raise around $1 billion in a June equity offering, […]

KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan is in the middle of an unusual property boom. Developers grab large tracts of land, stealing them outright or occupying them, advertise mega development projects and then buy off regulators with the money they raise selling some of the land they dubiously claim. Poor people who have lived in their homes […]

Swing-claim TD Maria Bailey has done the insurance policy payers of this country a favour. Her now withdrawn action for damages against a hotel where she claims she fell off a swing has landed a massive blow to our out-of-control claims culture. Public patience with the failure to remedy our overly generous compensation system has […]

It could hardly have come at a more difficult time. Maria Bailey’s controversial compensation claim clearly was a drag on Fine Gael in the vital latter days of a tricky local council election, especially in Dublin. Many Fine Gael heavy-hitters, from the Taoiseach down, have acknowledged that it “was coming up on the doors” for […]

For the entire Memorial Cup run, head ice technician Kelly Saunders has called the Scotiabank Centre his home. “I’ve lived here for about a week but it was a great tournament,” said Saunders. On Monday morning, Saunders was rinkside again, this time with a water hose in hand, as he sprayed the ice surface in […]

To the Editor: Re “Low-Income College Students Face Tax Increase” (news article, May 18): As an education nonprofit executive director, I always ruminate on President Barack Obama’s line when creating our budget: “A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.” What does taxing […]

Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a new series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future. The challenges they predict are imaginary — for now — but their arguments illuminate […]

As a child, I remember listening to a group of anti-abortion adults talk about the advocacy work of progressives. “How can a Democrat care about the extinction of baby whales, but not care about the killing of the unborn?” one asked. No one had an answer. To this group of passionate conservative abortion opponents, protecting […]

Voters who participate in local and European elections are aware that these contests differ in important ways from general elections. They do not choose the government and, unfettered by concerns about income tax rates and national policy, voters are often more experimental in their voting preferences. The Green Party is the latest beneficiary of the […]