HOUSE MINORITY Leader Nancy Pelosi has an interesting definition of what constitutes the middle class. She believes it includes people earning anything less than $1 million a year — at least when it comes to tax cuts. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Nancy Pelosi’s risky pander on taxes

Third Point, which is the middle of a contentious proxy battle with Yahoo, called for the dismissal of the company’s chief executive, Scott Thompson, after revealing that he had inaccurately stated his credentials.

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DealBook: Hedge Fund Intensifies Attack on Yahoo Amid Storm Over Padded Résumés

Tavis Smiley, Cornel West say as the middle class slips into poverty, the needs of the rich are taking priority over those of everyday Americans.

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Opinion: American Dream in trouble

Kyo Ya, a Japanese hideaway in the middle of the East Village, offers a menu grounded in the shapes and rhythms of the natural world.

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Restaurant Review: Kyo Ya — NYC — Restaurant Review

On a cold, clear January morning, Sir Richard Branson finds himself standing in the middle of a pedestrian-friendly street in Newcastle — a hardscrabble city in northeast England — becoming something he never thought he would be: a banker. Read full article > >

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‘The guy who brought you the Sex Pistols could sort out your pension, too.’

On a cold, clear January morning, Sir Richard Branson finds himself standing in the middle of a pedestrian-friendly street in Newcastle — a hardscrabble city in northeast England — becoming something he never thought he would be: a banker. Read full article > >

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‘The guy who brought you the Sex Pistols could sort out your pension, too.’

Local governments in New York are finding themselves in the middle of a financial crisis, with problems spreading as they face a toxic mix of soaring pension and retiree health costs.

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Deficits Push Municipalities to Desperation

Local governments in New York are finding themselves in the middle of a financial crisis, with problems spreading as they face a toxic mix of soaring pension and retiree health costs.

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Deficits Push Municipalities to Desperation

LOS ANGELES — “I’m in the middle! I’m in the middle of the roooom!” Catherine O’Hara yells into her cellphone, across the sea of Chevy Chases and Sandra Bullocks and a guy who people keep thinking is Zachary Quinto but is not. “Right in the middle!” Read full article > >

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2012 Oscars: Navigating a sea of stars at Vanity Fair after party

A rising sense of panic has emerged among the middle class, which is bearing the economic burden as the West ratchets up pressure on the Iranian regime.

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In Iran, Rising International Tensions Take a Toll

With for-profit colleges under siege in Washington over accusations that they defraud students, Mitt Romney’s endorsement of them puts him in the middle of a political debate.

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Mitt Romney Offers Praise for a Donor’s Business

Federal employees don’t need Paul Revere riding through the Federal Triangle on a Segway yelling, “Budget cuts are coming, budget cuts are coming,” to know that times are tough for the workforce. Already in the middle of a two-year freeze of basic pay, the best workers can hope for is Congress accepting President Obama’s proposal for a measly 0.5 percent raise next year. Read full article > >

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Across-the-board cuts in federal workplace may not be wise or safe

The nation's exploding economic inequality threatens the middle class. It's time for a new social contract, says Paul Osterman.

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Opinion: How to save the middle class

For decades, government jobs gave black workers a refuge from racial discrimination in the workplace and a springboard to the middle class. No longer.

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As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Black Americans Are Hit Hard

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno ’s head coaching career at Penn State began on Sept. 17, 1966 with a win over Maryland, and it ended Wednesday night, at the end of an extraordinary day, in the middle of an emotionally wrenching week, with a telephone call from the heads of the school’s Board of Trustees . Read full article > >

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Joe Paterno fired as football coach at Penn State