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In the runup to this week's midterm elections, political divisiveness appears to have reached new heights. How divided are we and what can we do about it?

The New York Stock Exchange — that bastion of American capitalism — owes its existence to two dozen men, a buttonwood tree, and a coffee shop. Today on The Indicator: the history of Wall Street.

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz discusses Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has ruled that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions.

Every year, the nation's biggest banks are subjected to stress tests, hypothetical disaster scenarios designed to test their balance sheets. But the stress tests could soon be getting less stressful.

Los Angeles - it's not what you think.

Assigning a grade to a bottle of wine might seem counterintuitive, or even a little absurd, but wine scores have can have a big impact the people who sell wine — and the people who drink it.

Bloomberg said the greatest threat to American democracy is "our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party and in pursuit of power."

What one embattled smartphone-maker can tell us about China's plan to transform its economy

After six years of preparation, an ambitious new experiment will study the effects of income on the development of infant brains.