ethics

An armored truck dropped boxes of cash on a downtown Indianapolis street and a frenzied money grab ensued, with drivers stopping short, bolting from their cars and scurrying away with armloads of cash clutched to their chests. Reports say a few homeless people stood by, not partaking, but people...

Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who has represented Harlem for four decades, will face a rare trial before the House Ethics Committee on 13 charges that he misused his position as the powerful Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee.

On Tuesday, the FDA will convene a panel of experts to discuss GlaxoSmithKline's type II diabetes drug Avandia. Once a blockbuster, sales of the drug have dropped by more than half since studies suggested it significantly increases risk for serious heart problems.

A group of 62 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives is lobbying to keep car dealerships exempt from a Wall Street reform bill that will be considered later this month. But as the lawmakers are pushing for the exemption, a House ethics committee is investigating the timing of fundraisers...

The New York Times recently looked at the plight of Cortney Munna, a graduate of New York University struggling with nearly $100,000 in student loans, and asked: Should schools abet students in the process of financial self destruction, or should they follow a higher purpose?

While it may seem like a fortuitous turn of events, ethically and, in some cases, legally, financial errors made in your favor shouldn't be accepted and can, in fact, be considered theft. Instances of banks erroneously depositing large amounts of money in consumers' accounts, for example, did not...

When the Pulitzer Prizes are announced later today, a lot of people will be watching to see whether the National Enquirer will win one for exposing John Edwards' affair. Here's why it won't.

The dearth of females on the Forbes billionaires list doesn't mean women are to be pitied for lack of opportunity, the latest wave of feminists say. Instead, since money truly doesn't buy happiness, women who "live joyously with little money" gain personal fulfillment and enact social change.

Blogging as a form of journalism is new enough that the ethics of it are still being worked out. And blog ethics can be a particularly treacherous area for those who wander into it unawares -- as one New York City publicity executive did last week.

You may remember reading in this space about Mike Albo, a New York Times freelancer who was suspended from writing his column after I reported on a lavish, all-expenses-paid junket he and several other journalists accepted. In the weeks since then, numerous people have commented on how I "got Mike...