Joshua Chaffin is senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal’s National Affairs team in New York. Joshua’s reporting covers a wide range of domestic issues and figures shaping business, ...

Ruth Simon is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers small business and entrepreneurship. She has previously covered consumer lending, mortgages and housing, and ...

The Big Ten should place three teams in the top 12 of the playoff rankings Tuesday evening. But where will the next tier of teams fall?

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on October 11 won an award that he had often said he would not win: the Nobel Prize for Literature. Veteran Trinidadian author and Nobel prize-winning novelist V S ...