File this one under unintended consequences.  Angelina Jolie, by announcing her preventative double masectomy, will likely have significant influence well beyond women’s health. By modeling how to think with data when data do not tell us what we would otherwise want them to say, she displayed a level of decision-making courage that business and political leaders should strive to emulate. ...

With the administration facing another week of congressional hearings, the Republican party is focusing its ire on Eric Holder, the attorney-general

Mandelson says anti-EU Tories are threatening to 'burn down the house' unless David Cameron caves into their demandsTory Eurosceptics are running a "Soprano-style protection racket" in the Conservative party in which they are threatening to burn down the house unless David Cameron caves into their demands, Lord Mandelson has claimed.As the former Tory chancellor Lord Howe warned that the prime ...

IRS, AP, Benghazi … this past week, the president has been forced to confront a series of damaging scandals that could derail his second term before it has really begunIt is not a comparison that many people thought would ever get much traction.But, assailed this week by multiple scandals and at the mercy of a furious press, President Obama has ...

The Internal Revenue Service has refused to provide documents over the past two years to a congressional panel exploring whether the agency gave tougher scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, a leading Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee said Friday.