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NYC’s Congestion Pricing Is Good for the US

yesterday 20

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Michael R. Bloomberg

Europe Is Having the Right Sort of Bond Rout

yesterday 8

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Marcus Ashworth

Supreme Court’s USAID Ruling Sends an Important Message

yesterday 0

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Noah Feldman

The Case Against Tariffs Is Getting Stronger

yesterday 0

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Tyler Cowen

A Digg-Reddit Slugfest Has Web 2.0 Vibes — With an AI Twist

yesterday 0

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Dave Lee

Official English Hits Different Coming From This White House

yesterday 0

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Patricia Lopez

Cuts to National Parks Couldn’t Come at a More Dangerous Time

yesterday 0

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Erika D. Smith

Germany’s Shock Turns to Anger — and Animal Spirits

yesterday 10

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John Authers

Apollo's Ditched Deal Teaches a Lesson in Hardball M&A

yesterday 30

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Chris Hughes

Real Ukraine Peace Talks Require a Real US Security Guarantee

yesterday 30

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Andreas Kluth

Europe Is Getting Ready for the End of NATO

Europe Is Getting Ready for the End of NATO

This is a column I never dreamed I’d be writing, as a former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But sadly, given...

previous day 40

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James Stavridis

We’re About to See If the ‘Trump Put’ Is Real

We’re About to See If the ‘Trump Put’ Is Real

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Tariffs Tuesday is in the books, which is just as well. The US has...

previous day 10

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John Authers

EU's €800 Billion for Defense Is Bond Tantrum in the Making

EU's €800 Billion for Defense Is Bond Tantrum in the Making

The crumbling transatlantic alliance is undermining the assumptions that have underpinned European financial markets since the creation of the...

previous day 9

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Marcus Ashworth

Honda Could Get BYD-ed in Key Scooter Market

previous day 3

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David Fickling

WHO Should Embrace Change and Get Back to Work

WHO Should Embrace Change and Get Back to Work

The World Health Organization’s largest laboratory network tests 500,000 patient samples a year to track measles, rubella and a host of other...

previous day 3

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Editorial Board

How Past Failures to Rein In Federal Sprawl Led to DOGE

How Past Failures to Rein In Federal Sprawl Led to DOGE

The federal government was growing much too fast, the young lawmaker warned. “One thing that we must do is to begin reviewing existing programs to...

previous day 1

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Justin Fox

Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla’s $660 Billion Slump

Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla’s $660 Billion Slump

Elon Musk’s embrace of President Donald Trump and de facto direction of the Department of Government Efficiency was initially greeted with rapture....

previous day 2

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Liam Denning

Mexico’s Secret Weapon in the Trade War? Its Popular President

Mexico’s Secret Weapon in the Trade War? Its Popular President

Claudia Sheinbaum is all smiles. It may sound odd, but the Mexican president announced her plans to retaliate against Donald Trump’s trade tariffs...

previous day 2

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Xi’s Genius Plan to Empower Consumers, With John Wick

previous day 10

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Shuli Ren

Reform the Consumer Finance Watchdog, Don't Delete It

Reform the Consumer Finance Watchdog, Don't Delete It

It’s been a rough start to the year for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Its director was fired on Feb. 1. His temporary replacement...

tuesday 3

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Editorial Board

Can Trump Deliver on His Promises? These 12 Metrics Will Tell Us

tuesday 4

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Jonathan Levin

California Keeps Making the US Great - Again

California Keeps Making the US Great - Again

During the first week of November when he said he won “the most epic political victory our country has ever seen,” which proved to be by the...

tuesday 9

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Matthew A. Winkler

Xi Just Got the Chance He’s Been Waiting For

Xi Just Got the Chance He’s Been Waiting For

These are great changes unseen in a century, as the Chinese saying goes. The phrase, which which was first used by President Xi Jinping during a...

tuesday 20

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Karishma Vaswani

We’ll Keep Having Fewer Babies. Time to Accept That

We’ll Keep Having Fewer Babies. Time to Accept That

After years of grinding lower, a widely watched measure of fertility in a country battling significant demographic headwinds notched a small...

tuesday 6

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Daniel Moss

Can an Old Soros Theory Help Bessent Steer Markets?

Can an Old Soros Theory Help Bessent Steer Markets?

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spent years working for George Soros, and it appears the legendary investor’s theory about reflexivity left a...

tuesday 3

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Jonathan Levin

US Recession Odds Are Becoming Unsettlingly High

US Recession Odds Are Becoming Unsettlingly High

The notion of a US recession seemed remote just a few months ago, a mere blip on the radar of economic possibilities. More recently, however, that...

tuesday 1

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Mohamed A. El-Erian

America’s Loss of Soft Power Is Putin’s Gain

America’s Loss of Soft Power Is Putin’s Gain

One astonishing phenomenon (of admittedly many) in this second presidency of Donald Trump is his voluntary transfer of America’s greatest asset to...

03.03.2025 20

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Andreas Kluth

Tariffs Show the Market Guardrail May Be Overrated

Tariffs Show the Market Guardrail May Be Overrated

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . The US president announced at 2:42 p.m. Eastern Time that tariffs...

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John Authers

Crypto's Next Bubble Will Be Politically Motivated

Crypto's Next Bubble Will Be Politically Motivated

Donald Trump is known for loving 19th-century President William McKinley, whom he credits for improving the US “through tariffs and through...

03.03.2025 100

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Lionel Laurent

The ‘Oil Grand Bargain’ Isn’t Mere Fantasy

The ‘Oil Grand Bargain’ Isn’t Mere Fantasy

Listen to US President Donald Trump and it’s inescapable that he favors low energy prices. “Bring down the cost of oil,” he told OPEC last...

03.03.2025 20

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Javier Blas

China’s Naval Moves Show the Scale of Its Ambition

China’s Naval Moves Show the Scale of Its Ambition

In the last two weeks, the People’s Liberation Army conducted live-fire naval drills in the international waters off Australia, New Zealand and...

02.03.2025 10

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Karishma Vaswani

Trump’s Oval Office Clash With Zelenskiy Was a Win for Putin

Trump’s Oval Office Clash With Zelenskiy Was a Win for Putin

Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, are already spinning today’s Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a...

02.03.2025 70

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Andreas Kluth

Can Gen Z Truly Opt Out of Capitalism?

Can Gen Z Truly Opt Out of Capitalism?

It’s no secret that millennials and Gen Zers are displeased with capitalism and the hustle culture that feeds it. Many polls and reports have...

02.03.2025 3

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Erin Lowry

Can the World Relax About Killer Asteroids Now?

Can the World Relax About Killer Asteroids Now?

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as...

02.03.2025 10

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Editorial Board

Cruelty Is the Point in Attacks on Transgender Teens

Cruelty Is the Point in Attacks on Transgender Teens

President Donald Trump spent much of his first month in office attacking the rights of transgender Americans, including stripping away teens’...

02.03.2025 3

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Lisa Jarvis

Europe Has the Money to Save Ukraine. It Needs the Will

Europe Has the Money to Save Ukraine. It Needs the Will

A disastrous Oval Office meeting for Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday crystallized what was already becoming apparent: US support for Ukraine’s war...

02.03.2025 10

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Editorial Board

The ICC Is Flawed and Worth Fighting For

The ICC Is Flawed and Worth Fighting For

A former colleague from my days covering the collapse of the former Soviet bloc has published a new book on the long and difficult road to the...

02.03.2025 10

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Marc Champion

Europe Needs Nerves of Steel Against Trade Coercion

Europe Needs Nerves of Steel Against Trade Coercion

Does the future of European steel lie in the US state of Alabama? That’s where Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal SA is pouring $1.2 billion into a new...

02.03.2025 2

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Lionel Laurent

If Ukraine Deal Wasn't Perilous Before, It Is Now

If Ukraine Deal Wasn't Perilous Before, It Is Now

The spectacle of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly dressing down Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Oval Office...

02.03.2025 10

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Hal Brands

Yankees Allowing Beards Is About Way More Than Facial Hair

Yankees Allowing Beards Is About Way More Than Facial Hair

Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge are the faces of Major League Baseball. Even non-fans recognize them. But outside of the two superstars, the league...

02.03.2025 1

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Adam Minter

The Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid Is Hiding in Plain Sight

The Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Democrats say that House Republicans voted last week to enact huge cuts to Medicaid. Republicans say they did no such thing. As a matter of...

02.03.2025 1

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Matthew Yglesias