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How do different nations’ laws manage the multinational companies that now govern our digital lives?

Today’s Internet is a place for getting things done, pushing aside the cyberflâneur — the heir to the flâneur culture of 19th-century France.

Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

What the actor is reading and watching.

The writers Donald Antrim, Chad Harbach and Susan Orlean chat about the appeal of sports.

Living alone can make it easier to be social.

Prosecuting Judge Baltasar Garzón for digging into Franco-era crimes is an offense against justice and history.

Stopping digital piracy, which is growing by leaps and bounds, is about protecting creativity — and jobs.

Romney’s Mormon faith is too central to his biography and identity to be swept to the side.

Vladimir Putin has been unable to make the political, economic and educational changes needed to make Russia a modern European state. Will he step up?

Web tools can turn the world upside down. Change.org has empowered ordinary people to close down homophobic “clinics” in Ecuador, shine a light on sex trafficking, and force banks to drop fees.

Should capital gains and dividends be treated like ordinary income? Readers discuss the pros and cons of tax preferences.

Can Callista transform Newt so that he can transform her into the First Third Lady?

Three major legal cases may influence the 2012 election, but the cases also illustrate how politics shape the Supreme Court.

President Obama’s new mortgage refinancing plan could provide considerable relief for millions of homeowners shackled to high interest rates, if Congress approves it.

Half of the country wants to restrict or end abortion, but you wouldn’t know that from the coverage of the Planned Parenthood-Komen controversy.

New York Times reporting on Yale’s Patrick Witt and his quest for a Rhodes scholarship left important issues unresolved, and some readers thought it was unfair.

Relying on GPS devices can erode our ability to develop mental maps.

The condition makes it harder to learn to read. But it also seems to offer visual advantages.

Whether Barack Obama wins or loses in November, the Democratic Party’s attention will immediately turn to 2016.