Miriam Leibowitz, reproductive freedom organizer, American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, Nashville The reprehensible crimes committed by Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his clinic staff in West Philadelphia bring to mind reproductive health conditions prior to the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision protecting a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion. In Tennessee, […]

By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan “the world’s easiest country for companies to do business in” as part of his economic […]

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. Apple has a good deal of cash. And, in the Valley, the startup ecosystem — for many reasons — wants to see Apple spend that cash. As their cash pile continued to grow as their stock price and […]

The Associated Press Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 12:09 a.m. Japan’s economy enjoyed a stronger than expected recovery last quarter, growing at a 3.5 percent annual pace as the government stepped up public works spending and eased credit to encourage investment. The data for January to March showed the world’s third-largest economy grew 0.9 percent […]