Global Economy

In July 2012, reports said Facebook would launch a job-postings board aggregating listings from BranchOut, Jobvite, and Work4 Labs — a light step into

Apple paid $60 million in July 2012 to settle with Shenzhen Proview over the iPad trademark in China, clearing the way to sell the tablet in a key market.

In Herat, Afghanistan, farmers swapped opium poppies for saffron — the world's priciest spice — at the cost of Taliban threats and kidnappings.

How one Oregon woman's absurd $2.1 million fake state tax return sailed through the review process — and what it exposed about refund fraud.

June 2012: Wisconsin's recall defeat, anemic jobs numbers, Clinton freelancing, a looming Supreme Court verdict — Democrats woke to the possibility that

In May 2012 Kaspersky exposed Flame — a massive cyberespionage toolkit aimed at Iran, with 86 fake-identity domains and all the hallmarks of a state operation.

The '1%' was really a 0.1% problem: the elite whose wealth buys the rules themselves. On inequality, Occupy, and why the policy answers differ.

In May 2012 Ellen Pao sued Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination — with harassment allegations against partner Ajit Nazre at its center.

The 1,360-km India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway — agreed in 2002, perpetually delayed and re-announced. India's road to Southeast Asia.

The 2012 western wildfire season — six states burning, Colorado's Waldo Canyon destroying 346 homes, and a firefighting system stretched past its limits.

May 2012: Egypt's first-round results pointed to a runoff between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi once played serious cricket for an all-girls team in Chennai. Her career cost her the sport — and she has named what achievement took.

The 2012 speculation that Obama might swap Biden for Hillary Clinton as his running mate — the electoral logic, the arguments against, and why it never

In 2012 Gina Rinehart became the world's richest woman on iron ore wealth — polarizing Australia with her wages politics, media stakes, and a bitter family

In May 2012 a French prosecutor in Lille opened a preliminary rape investigation against Strauss-Kahn over an alleged December 2010 incident in Washington.

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

Denmark tried a fat tax in 2011 and repealed it in 2012; Mexico's sugary-drink tax worked better. The economics and the liberty debate behind taxing

Raise taxes and the rich will flee? The evidence on millionaire tax migration says the exodus is mostly myth — here is what the research actually found.

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.