On Monday — Day 1 of the fiasco over United Airlines’s forcible removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight — the stock of United Continental Holdings Inc. actually rallied. Perhaps Americans were outraged by how the passenger was treated, but airlines operate in a consolidated industry where consumers don’t have much choice. Investors seemed to shrug and assume …

  Paying women less than men is not only unfair but counterproductive. Women and men alike prefer to work for — and work harder for — companies that pay equally. Yet women who hold down the same jobs as men, with the same qualifications, still generally earn less. So it makes sense to continue to try to close the gap. …

  North Korea has reacted fiercely to the US move to send a Navy strike carrier USS Carl Vinson and its battle group to waters off Korean peninsula. The new development has further worsened the already volatile situation on the divided peninsula with the United States and South Korea conducting their biggest-ever military exercises. North Korea sees this annual wargames …