On October 17, a French judge placed the nearly 90-year-old Liliane Bettencourt, a billionaire, under the guardianship of her grandson. The ruling was the culmination of a long battle with her only ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Watching director Paul Schrader's psychosexual drama "The Canyons" isn't unlike watching a slow-motion train wreck. And, no, that's not a reference to the participation of Lindsay Lohan, the current ...

In the Bible's story about the Judgment of Solomon, King Solomon ruled between two women both claiming to be the mother of a baby. The two mothers lived in the same house, where each mother cared for ...

THIS book has attracted much attention in literary circles, but it deserves notice here also, because it is a good example of the present tendency to bridge the old gulf between the study of the ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Vinay Prasad is associate professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University and author of “Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer.” Ezekiel J. Emanuel is ...

I recently came home from a quick trip to Montana with my younger son. My teenager greeted me by briefly emerging from the rat's nest of his room, pointing at his headphones when I said "hi," and ...