How Does Marital Status Affect Your Federal Taxes

Laws have always regulated who may marry, the obligations related to marriage and children and whether and how a marriage can be ended. Governments have always put their own social agenda above the pluralism of personal choice. Never in history have governments considered marital relations strictly private. In the U.S. tax code, hundreds of assumptions ...

How Will You Score On Credit Score Quiz?

How Will You Score on a 21-Question Credit Score Quiz?

ABCs of The High School Challenge

1. How does The High School Challenge work? We take the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and divide by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June. I call this formula the Challenge Index. With a few exceptions, public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000 ...

Ask LH: How Can I Get The Credit I Deserve When My Boss Is A Spotlight Hog?

Dear Lifehacker, My boss loves to take credit for my ideas and my work. I recently wrote a published article, and he insisted that he be included as an author, even though he had nothing to do with the work I did and didn’t even see it until it was ready to publish. What should I do? How can I make sure he doesn’t take credit for my work after it’s finished, or claim my ideas wer ...

Does Diablo III's big online-only bet pay off?

(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about . Some of that talk is about how the game, a decade in the making, is a huge hit, with millions of copies presold before the May 15 launch. But much of the talk is also about the big bet developer and publisher Blizzard is making by forcing even solitary players to log in ...