“In Washington, truth is just another special interest—and one that is not well financed,” observed Michael Mussa, the University of Chicago economist who became a member of President Ronald Reagan’s ...

I’m a new manager and I’m wondering about consequences. When an employee is not meeting expectations, you frequently mention that a manager should clearly explain the potential consequences if the ...

The reason agreement in principle does not translate to agreement in practice is that the former has no consequences. A contract is not a contract until performance and compensation are agreed. No one ...

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A committee of the National Research Council examined the best available evidence and found no clear evidence that greater reliance on imprisonment achieved its intended goal of substantially reducing ...

If you answered yes, you were probably using a form of moral reasoning called "utilitarianism." Stripped down to its essentials, utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right ...

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. — Norman Cousins A ...

Last month, we published an editorial under the title “A Period of Consequences.” The phrase was taken from a speech in the House of Commons in late 1936 in which Winston Churchill warned: “The era of ...

In May 2021, papers across the country were covered with pictures of long lines at gas stations and stories of gas shortages all over the East Coast. The cause was a ransomware attack on Colonial ...