The CIT Group, one of the nation’s largest commercial lenders serving a million small and midsized companies, is on the verge of collapse...

During Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court – confirmation she is certain to win – one of the most controversial issues discussed was the judge's signing on to a very brief appellate-court ruling affirming a lower court's decision to support a city government's invalidation of a promotion test for firefighters, which the majority – all of them white, though one was of Puerto Rican background – had passed...

Jason Furman owes an apology to Michael Boskin, the Stanford economist who wrote a year ago on these pages that Barack Obama would raise American income tax rates nearly to 60%...

The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) sent out an email last week highlighting the points of interest for this week’s confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court...