When a scandal lands a college at the center of media attention, students and families are often repulsed — quite literally. That’s what we discovered when we examined admissions data at dozens of schools where scandals took place over roughly a decade. For instance, we found that in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child […]

People planning to buy a home have every right to feel furious about the activities of cuckoo funds snapping new developments en masse. And the controversy has the potential to become a new scandal to match the mess created by the tracker theft debacle. Having done all the right things, potential new buyers are now […]

Life comes at us fast. One minute you’re a “beacon to the world”, the next you’re the centre of “absolute madness”. The visit of Nancy Pelosi to Derry this week highlighted the remarkable distance this island has travelled in 21 years. The back-slapping romanticised a coming of age that is far from complete. Then came […]

The launch of the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB) is a welcome initiative by the Central Bank to address the pattern of recurring scandals that are spawned by a deeply ingrained, cynical banking culture. Cynical, because the noble corporate values and ethical principles that the banks’ marketing rhetoric purports to espouse have been systematically violated […]

NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and private realty firm Crown Acquisitions said on Friday they were the unnamed investors in a deal with Vornado Realty Trust valued at $5.56 billion that involves a portfolio of prime New York retail properties. Vornado sold a non-controlling stake in its portfolio of properties along Fifth […]

To the Editor: Re “Mueller Report Lays Out Russian Contacts and Trump’s Frantic Efforts to Foil Inquiry” (front page, April 19): Whether or not President Trump succeeded in obstructing justice, it is clear from the Mueller report that this was his intent — frustrated only by Mr. Trump’s own managerial incompetence and the unwillingness of […]

To the Editor: Re “Sanders, Surging, Has Democrats Jittery (Again)” (front page, April 17): I am a Democratic activist who is not supporting Bernie Sanders to be our nominee. In fact, I don’t think he should be running; he should instead be supporting the next generation of progressive candidates supporting his agenda. However, the Democratic […]

PARIS — For Georges Duby, a historian of the Middle Ages, one of the defining features of a historic event, or “évènement,” is that it triggers waves of commentary that bring out what had been kept unspoken. The fire that broke out at Notre-Dame this week is a historic event of our times. Monday night, […]

The final report by the special counsel Robert Mueller is devastating for the president. Far from the “total and complete exoneration” that President Trump prematurely claimed when Attorney General William Barr released his four-page summary of Mr. Mueller’s work, the special counsel’s report, over the course of 400-plus pages, lays out a compelling case — […]

The best thing to come from the Senate’s floor debate on the Green New Deal late last month may have been these eminently sane remarks, calling on lawmakers of both parties to “move together” in order “to lower emissions, to address the reality of climate change, recognizing that we’ve got an economy we need to […]