Alexander Sammon

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The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.

Has this latter-day John D. Rockefeller found his inner peacenik?

This year's Objectivist Conference revealed that her cult of hyper-capitalism has a major recruiting problem: All the young people want to be socialists!

The prime minister of Hungary has caged refugees in shipping containers and rewritten the country's constitution.

Meet the first—and only—corporate executive to be charged in the opioid crisis.

Two developers dreamed of building the biggest ferris wheel in the world. The project had Michael Bloomberg's blessing, while a Wall Street whiz named Big Rich pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in Chinese loans. What went wrong?

The rural town south of Chicago is now a crucial stop for Amazon, Wal-Mart, IKEA, Home Depot, and other giant retailers. Developers had promised growth and good jobs. So why is everyone so miserable?

Wall Street took the money the government lent them and plowed it straight into the fossil fuel industry.

Today’s voters owe a lot of money. Do they care if their candidates do too?

Bill Nelson, the incumbent Democrat, is attempting to blame a severe algal bloom on Republican Rick Scott. Will it work?